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Cargando... Immortal for Quite Some Timepor Scott H. Abbott
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"This is not a memoir. Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question: 'Are we friends, my brother?' The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir." Thus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of his brother John, a man who died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing about his brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted, educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity. Images and quotations are interwoven with the reflections, as is a critical female voice that questions his assertions and ridicules his rhetoric. The book moves from the starkness of a morgue's autopsy through familial disintegration and adult defiance to a culminating fraternal conversation. This exquisitely written work will challenge notions of resolution and wholeness. Winner of the book manuscript prize in creative nonfiction in the Utah Arts Council's Original Writing Competition. Winner of the 15 Bytes Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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What I can say is that I loved this book. Full disclosure, I know Scott, I've been hearing about this book for years, I know some of the stories from other venues. I'm a disaffected mormon who loves many mormons. I'm brotherless.
Scott calls this a fraternal meditation. It unpacks issues involved with family, love, mormonism, religion in general, homosexuality, culture, and familial -- especially fraternal love.
Scott's interlocutors are alive and terrifying in their critique of his narrative. His own voice is terrifyingly honest. He exposes what culture and well meaning love can do to humans who cannot live in that culture as themselves, and how insidious such attempts to shuttle us into little boxes can be. How deadly, in this case.
I wish I was writer enough to convey how beautiful this book is. I am anxious to begin my first re-read. ( )