Title - Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction By Working-Class Men About More Or Less Gay Life
 | Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction By Working-Class Men About More Or Less Gay Life
Ricketts, Wendell
In this age of Will & Grace and gentrification, the "dream market" and gay investment advisors, you don't hear much about working-class queers. In fact, some would even consider the idea a contradiction in terms. But the contributors to Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men About More-or-Less Gay Life would beg to differ. The first collection of short stories by working-class queer, gay, and bisexual men, Everything I Have Is Blue is a rich and long-overdue contribution both to the burgeoning field of working-class studies and to LGBTIQ fiction.
The international writers include a professional trucker, a Texas prisoner, a librarian, a poet, an activist, a retired English professor, and a street mime, to name a few, but what makes their voices powerful and unique isn't their professions, it's their ability to straddle ideological and cultural divides that would give Paul Bunyan pause.
In Everything I Have Is Blue are love stories and stories of lives gone wrong; narratives of hope and songs of despair; tales of revenge and chronicles of redemption. In short, Everything I Have Is Blue showcases a literature of depth and complexity that brings much-needed color to the palate of queer cultural and literary identity. (Suspect Thoughts)
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ISBN: 0974638897
Type: Pbk.
Number of pages: 256pp
Publisher: Suspect Thoughts Press
Date Of Publication: 200506
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