I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780060817329)

"A glittering, bittersweet vision of an outsider who turned himself into the life and soul of the party. Kilmer-Purcell's cast is part freak-show, part soap-opera, but his prose is graced with such insight and wit that the laughter is revelatory, and the tears--and there are tears to be shed along this extraordinary journey--are shed for people in whom everybody will find something of themselves. In a word, wonderful." -- Clive Barker

"Absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking and heartfelt." --Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City

The New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoir of a young New Yorker's daring dual life--advertising art director by day, glitter-dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty-pageant hopeful by night--was a smash literary debut for Josh Kilmer-Purcell, now known for his popular Planet Green television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. His story begins here--before the homemade goat milk soaps and hand-gathered honeys, before his memoir of the city mouse's move to the country, The Bucolic Plague--in I Am Not Myself These Days, with "plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight" (Washington Post).

Author: Josh Kilmer-Purcell
ISBN-10: 0060817321
ISBN-13: 9780060817329
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2006
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.30w x 0.83d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/05/2005 pg. 43
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2005 pg. 1266
Library Journal 02/15/2006 pg. 125
Booklist 02/01/2006 pg. 10
Entertainment Weekly 02/10/2006 pg. 140
Booksense '76 March 2006 03/01/2006 pg. 1
Lambda Book Report 06/01/2006 pg. 19