Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction
The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography
Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city's new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decade's opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a black gay writer in an open marriage, with tertiary walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, W. H. Auden, and James Baldwin, and a panoply of brilliantly drawn secondary characters.
| ISBN: | 9780816645237 |
| Publication date: | 3rd May 2004 |
| Author: | Samuel R Delany |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 572 pages |
| Genres: |
LGBTQ+ Studies / topics |
Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school.
The Motion of Light in Water features in the following genres: LGBTQ+ Studies / topics
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The Motion of Light in Water was written by Samuel R Delany and published by University of Minnesota Press
The Motion of Light in Water has 572 pages