Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781551527291
Year: 2018
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press


Description:




Meet Alexa: a resilient twenty-one-year-old queen who lives without rules or apologies.


Sketchtasy takes place
in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls
apart: it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer
world-making in the mid-'90s.



This
is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an
incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined
nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions, she negotiates past and
present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy of
drugged-out escapades, Alexa searches for nourishment in a gay culture bonded
by clubs and conformity, willful apathy, and the spectre of AIDS. Is there any
hope for communal care?



Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture
startlingly back to life, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of
growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an
intoxicating voice and unruly cadence, this is a shattering, incandescent novel
that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future.