{"product_id":"blackouts-a-novel-9781847083982","title":"Blackouts: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eBlackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure, blending fact with fiction and drawing on oral histories and historical records. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 01 August 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Granta Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJuan Gay lies dying in a room in The Palace, a monumental, fading institution in the desert. There, a young man cares for him - someone whom Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since. As the end approaches, the two trade stories - resurrecting lost loves, mothers and fathers - and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of sexuality, pathology, and oppression. And, through their conversations, another story is told: that of the radical queer anthropologist Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was co-opted and stifled by the committee she served. Blending fact with fiction, and drawing on oral histories and historical records, screenplay, testimony, and image, Blackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure - on the ways in which stories sustain histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 228g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 198 x 129 x 22 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781847083982\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Justin Torres","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46518844260602,"sku":"9781847083982","price":7.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/1722709481033_book.jpg?v=1722852925","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/blackouts-a-novel-9781847083982","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}