Overview
I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly--a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting for the survival of the relationship and ends by hoping someone simply survives. Kilmer-Purcell is a terrifically gifted new literary voice who straddles the divide between absurdity and normalcy, and stitches them together with surprising humor and lonely poignancy. As Booklist raved, I Am Not Myself These Days is as tart and funny as a Noël Coward play, for Kilmer-Purcell is especially good at dialogue, and, as in Coward's best plays, under the comedy lies the sad truth that even at our best, we are all weak, fallible fools. Again and again in this rich, adventure-filled book, Kilmer-Purcell illustrates the truth of Blake's proverb, 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.'
Full Product Details
Author: Josh Kilmer-Purcell ,
Johnny Heller
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9798200091621
Publication Date: 30 June 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"As tart and funny as a Noël Coward play.-- ""Booklist"" ""[Listeners] will find this tale of good-boy-turned-bad-drag-queen darkly hilarious and entertaining."" -- ""Library Journal"" ""A wonderful book, a ridiculous book, a sad and beautiful book, a book I'll read again, a book I highly recommend."" -- ""James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces"" ""As tart and funny as a Noël Coward play."" -- ""Booklist"""
"As tart and funny as a No�l Coward play.-- ""Booklist"" ""[Listeners] will find this tale of good-boy-turned-bad-drag-queen darkly hilarious and entertaining."" -- ""Library Journal"" ""A wonderful book, a ridiculous book, a sad and beautiful book, a book I'll read again, a book I highly recommend."" -- ""James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces"" ""As tart and funny as a No�l Coward play."" -- ""Booklist"""
Author Information
Josh Kilmer-Purcell is the bestselling author of the novel Candy Everybody Wants, and the star of Planet Green's documentary television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. He has also written two memoirs: I Am Not Myself These Days, about his life as a drag queen in New York's underground, and The Bucolic Plague, about becoming a gentleman farmer. He and his partner, Brent Ridge, divide their time between Manhattan and the Beekman Farm. Johnny Heller, winner of numerous Earphones and Audie Awards, was named a ""Golden Voice"" by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013 and he has been named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine.
