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1 online resource |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; Editor's Preface; Man in Harbor Coffee Shop; Guy on Second Avenue 1:00 A.M.; Guy in Waterfront Hotel; Twenty-Year-Old Woman in Times Square; Kentucky Trucker in the Rocky Mountains; Woman in Chinese-American Coffee Shop; Man in Portland Movie Theater; Fourteen-Year-Old Runaway Girl; Young Guy Hanging Out on Market Street; Man in Mickey's Dining Car 2:30 A.M.; Young Boy in Times Square 4:00 A.M.; Young Runner Hanging Out by the River; Young Woman in Coffee Shop on the Lower East Side; Guy in Car on Wall Street at Midnight; Boy in Coffee Shop on Third Avenue |
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Young Boy in Bus Station Coffee ShopYoung Man in Silver Dollar Restaurant; Night Guard in a Bookstore; Boy on the Lower East Side; Man on Christmas Eve along the Rainy Hudson River 3:00 A.M.; Man Lying Back on a Couch in 90-Degree Weather; Twenty-Five-Year-Old Guy at YMCA Two Weeks after Self-imposed Hermitude in a Boarded-Up House in New Orleans; Young Boy in Seafood Restaurant; Elderly Transvestite on Second Avenue (Evening); Canada-Bound Trucker on Interstate 90; Man in Sheridan Square Park Drinking 1:00 A.M.; Boy in Horn & Hardart's on Forty-second Street |
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A Kid on the Piers near the West Side HighwayHobo in Train Yard; Man in Brew & Burger on Forty-second Street and Eighth Avenue; Guy on Fourteenth Street 3:00 A.M.; Man Drinking Coffee in Thirty-third Street Pizzeria; Man in Coffee Shop Midnight East Village; Man in Casual Labor Office 6:30 A.M.; Man on Interstate Heading Towards NYC; Woman in Coffee Shop; Boy in YMCA; Man in Lower East Side Tenement Room; Girl Sitting on Pavement in front of Coffee Shop; Guy Waiting for a Bus; Hobo on Flatcar Eastbound for St. Paul; Man on Second Avenue 2:00 A.M.; Boy in Trailer Park; The Waterfront 2:00 A.M |
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From the Diaries of a Wolf BoyAbout the Author; Copyright Page |
| Summary |
Voices from the margins of American life tell their sad and shocking stories of trickery, betrayal, sex, and defeat in a poignant and powerful collection of more than forty short monologuesIn his full but regrettably brief lifetime, David Wojnarowicz was many things: a visual and performance artist whose radical work incensed the right-wing establishment, a tireless AIDS and anticensorship activist, and, most emphatically, a writer. His Waterfront Journals are a remarkable collection of fictionalized stories spoken in the voices of unforgettable characters the author met during his time spent living on America's streets and traveling her back roads. The narrators speak from the heart and from the depths of despair, creating an often shocking and powerfully moving mosaic of American life in the shadows. Here are junkies and boy hustlers, truckers and hoboes. A runner tells of his encounter with two drug-using priests who openly and proudly discuss their various sexual exploits. Whores tell of johns who brutalized them and corrupt cops who did the same. A young man relays his tale of a seedy movie balcony pickup and his shocking discovery that his?date? was not who she seemed. Another man describes sex with an amputee Vietnam veteran. Each of their stories stuns with hard and haunting truths that will leave the reader staggered and breathless, and yet exhilarated |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2022) |
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Gay men -- Fiction
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Street life -- United States -- Fiction
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Character sketches.
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Monologues.
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monologues.
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FICTION -- Gay.
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FICTION -- General.
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Character sketches.
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Gay men.
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Manners and customs.
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Monologues.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
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United States.
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Fiction.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781480489578 |
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1480489573 |
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