Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s Paperback - 2016
by Brad Gooch
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"A gorgeous memoir . . . a potent mix of love, art, and death."--Vanity Fair
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, re-created 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 New York and discovers his vocation as a writer.
Brookner falls ill with a mysterious virus that soon has a terrifying name: AIDS. And the story, along with 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.
"Brave and powerful."--A. M. Homes, author of May We Be Forgiven
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- Title Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s
- Author Brad Gooch
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2016-04-19
- ISBN 9780062354969 / 0062354965
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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