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Product details
- ISBN 9780299189006
- Weight: 436g
- Dimensions: 135 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2003
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Dennis Bacchus is a man who has outlived himself. HIV-positive and prepared to die at any minute, he finds himself in the late 1990s blessed with life-giving drugs, supportive friends, a boom economy, and an era of never-ending celebration - and he doesn't know what to do with himself. For ten years he has traveled and celebrated 8 curtailed life with the similarly infected Jimmy and, though Dennis was never that close to Jimmy, he decided to let the friendship run its course to the end. Now there's no end in sight. Stuck with left-over friendships, careers, and commitments, what can a man do but become a priest? The Boom Economy covers what was supposed to be the last decade of Dennis Bacchus's life, but turns out to be the first decade of the rest of it. The Boom Economy is a novel about conversion - not just seroconversion or religious conversion, but all of the social, spiritual, and emotional problems of changing from one life to another. At once raucous and serious, pagan and saintly, it's a look at the way we live now, Again.
Brian Bouldrey has written five books and edited six anthologies, including three volumes of Best American Gay Fiction. His edited collection Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men won a Lambda Literary Award and his memoir Monster: Adventures in American Machismo, was a Lambda finalist. He is a visiting assistant professor in creative writing at Northwestern University.
