Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s Hardback - 2015
by Brad Gooch
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Brad Gooch, the author of the acclaimed City Poet, returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City.
Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the 1970s, eager for artistic and personal freedom. Smash Cut is his bold and intimate memoir of this exhilarating time and place, complete with its cast of wild bohemians, celebrities, and budding artists, such as Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and Madonna. At its center is his love affair with film director Howard Brookner, recreated from fragments of memory and a crosshatch of conflicting emotions, from innocent romance to bleak despair.
Gooch and Brookner's intense relationship is challenged by sex and drugs, and by a culture of extreme experimentation. As both men try to reconcile love and fidelity with the irresistible desire to sample the legendary abandon of the era, they live together and apart. Gooch works briefly as a model in Milan, then returns to the city and discovers his vocation as a writer.
Brookner falls ill with a mysterious virus that soon has a terrifying name: AIDS. And the story, and life in the city, is suddenly overshadowed by this new plague that will ravage a generation and transform the creative world. Gooch charts the progress of Brookner through his illness, and writes unforgettably about endings: of a great talent, a passionate love affair, and an incandescent era.
Beautifully written, full of rich detail and poignant reflection, recalling a city and particular period and group of friends with affection and clarity, Smash Cut is an extraordinary memoir and an exquisite unflinching account of an epoch.
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- Title Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s
- Author Brad Gooch
- Binding Hardback
- Edition 1St Edition
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2015-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780062354952 / 0062354957
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Lgbt
- Category Biography / Autobiography
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Nineteen eighties
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/01/2015, Page 13
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2014, Page 0
- Library Journal, 11/15/2014, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 11/15/2014, Page 64
- New York Times Book Review, 08/02/2015, Page 26
- Publishers Weekly, 12/15/2014, Page 0
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