A Member of the family : gay men write about their families

Preston, John, 1945-1994 (Added Author).

Summary: In A Member of the Family the most talented gay writers of our time turn their hearts and psyches inside out to show us the families who gave birth to them, raised them, rejected them, exiled them, and loved them. There are no stereotypes here. Each essay, commissioned specifically for this collection, describes a family that is unique and so idiosyncratic that it can belong only to the author - and so familiar and universal that it reminds us startlingly of our own.

Item details

ISBN: 0525935495 :
ISBN: 9780525935490
Physical Description: print
309 p ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Dutton, c1992.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: my brother and the letter / John Preston -- Abuelo: my grandfather, Raymond Acuna / Michael Nava -- The way back home: revisiting my grandfather / Eric Latzky -- Mother / Laurence Tate -- The lost umbilical cord: my mother / Brian Kirkpatrick -- She's my mother / Larry Duplechan -- Mother, Isaac, and horses / R. Nikolaus Merrell -- My mother's ghost / Steven Saylor -- What she gave me: my mother Regina and history / Harlan Greene -- Father's sorrow, Father's joy / Darrell G. H. Schramm -- Kentucky 55 south: a visit with Dad / James Carroll Pickett -- My father picking plums / Bernard Cooper -- My father / Martin Palmer -- Jim my father / Bob Summer -- My entire life, and my father / Albert Clarke -- My brother on the shoulder of the road / Clifford Chase -- To my brother with love / John Champagne -- The brother, the glasses, the crackers, the turtle / Michael Bronski -- Uncle Sam / Arnie Kantrowitz -- My uncle, sitting beneath the tree / Andrew Holleran -- Second cousin / Philip Gambone -- When my sister laughs / Charles Henry Fuller -- My sister of perpetual mercy / David Rakoff -- My sister hated Little Richard / Brandon Judell -- My sister and I / Ronald L. Donaghe -- Sisterly advice / Christopher Wittke -- Sister / William Haywood Henderson.

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