University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 eISBN: 978-0-299-18903-7 | Cloth: 978-0-299-18900-6 Library of Congress Classification PS3552.O8314B66 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Dennis Bacchus is a man who has outlived himself. HIV-positive and prepared to die at any minute, he finds himself in the late 1990s blessed with life-giving drugs, supportive friends, a boom economy, and an era of never-ending celebration—and he doesn’t know what to do with himself.
For ten years he has traveled and celebrated a curtailed life with the similarly infected Jimmy and, though Dennis was never that close to Jimmy, he decided to let the friendship run its course to the end. Now there’s no end in sight. Stuck with leftover friendships, careers, and commitments, what can a man do but become a priest? The Boom Economy covers what was supposed to be the last decade of Dennis Bacchus’ life, but turns out to be the first decade of the rest of it. The Boom Economy is a novel about conversion—not just seroconversion or religious conversion, but all of the social, spiritual, and emotional problems of changing from one life to another. At once raucous and serious, pagan and saintly, it’s a look at the way we live now. Again.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Brian Bouldrey has written five books and edited six anthologies, including three volumes of Best American Gay Fiction. His edited collection Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men won a Lambda Literary Award and his memoir Monster: Adventures in American Machismo, was a Lambda finalist. He is a visiting assistant professor in creative writing at Northwestern University.
REVIEWS
"I have long admired the wit, compassion and utter poise of Brian Bouldrey’s work, his way of finding the hilarity in desperately sad situations, the sharpness and intelligence of his observations of the little details that make up our lives. The Boom Economy is the story of a spiritual quest; and a comedy of manners about living with HIV; and an exploration of love and friendship and loneliness at the end of the century. The amazing thing is that it’s so funny, so tender, and so wise all at the same time."—Dan Chaon, author of Among the Missing
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Vicar, Victoria
Breathing
Moss
Conversion
Hagiography
En Passant
Decadence
Religious Experience
Land of Lakes
Pain Management
Water Song
Everything Fruits
Bore Tide
Boom Economy
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 eISBN: 978-0-299-18903-7 Cloth: 978-0-299-18900-6
Dennis Bacchus is a man who has outlived himself. HIV-positive and prepared to die at any minute, he finds himself in the late 1990s blessed with life-giving drugs, supportive friends, a boom economy, and an era of never-ending celebration—and he doesn’t know what to do with himself.
For ten years he has traveled and celebrated a curtailed life with the similarly infected Jimmy and, though Dennis was never that close to Jimmy, he decided to let the friendship run its course to the end. Now there’s no end in sight. Stuck with leftover friendships, careers, and commitments, what can a man do but become a priest? The Boom Economy covers what was supposed to be the last decade of Dennis Bacchus’ life, but turns out to be the first decade of the rest of it. The Boom Economy is a novel about conversion—not just seroconversion or religious conversion, but all of the social, spiritual, and emotional problems of changing from one life to another. At once raucous and serious, pagan and saintly, it’s a look at the way we live now. Again.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Brian Bouldrey has written five books and edited six anthologies, including three volumes of Best American Gay Fiction. His edited collection Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men won a Lambda Literary Award and his memoir Monster: Adventures in American Machismo, was a Lambda finalist. He is a visiting assistant professor in creative writing at Northwestern University.
REVIEWS
"I have long admired the wit, compassion and utter poise of Brian Bouldrey’s work, his way of finding the hilarity in desperately sad situations, the sharpness and intelligence of his observations of the little details that make up our lives. The Boom Economy is the story of a spiritual quest; and a comedy of manners about living with HIV; and an exploration of love and friendship and loneliness at the end of the century. The amazing thing is that it’s so funny, so tender, and so wise all at the same time."—Dan Chaon, author of Among the Missing
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Vicar, Victoria
Breathing
Moss
Conversion
Hagiography
En Passant
Decadence
Religious Experience
Land of Lakes
Pain Management
Water Song
Everything Fruits
Bore Tide
Boom Economy
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