{"product_id":"states-of-desire-revisited-edmund-white-9780299302641","title":"States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America","description":"\u003ci\u003eStates of Desire Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e looks back from the twenty-first century at a pivotal moment in the late 1970s: Gay Liberation was a new and flourishing movement of creative culture, political activism, and sexual freedom, just before the 1980s devastation of AIDS. Edmund White traveled America, recording impressions of gay individuals and communities that remain perceptive and captivating today. He noted politicos in D.C. working the system, in-fighting radicals in New York and San Francisco, butch guys in Houston and self-loathing but courteous gentlemen in Memphis, the \"Fifties in Deep Freeze\" in Kansas City, progressive thinkers with conservative style in Minneapolis and Portland, wealth and beauty in Los Angeles, and, in Santa Fe, a desert retreat for older gays and lesbians since the 1920s.\u003cbr\u003e White frames those past travels with a brief, bracing review of gay America since the 1970s (\"now we were all supposed to settle down with a partner in the suburbs and adopt a Korean daughter\"), and a reflection on how Internet culture has diminished unique gay places and scenes but brought isolated individuals into a global GLBTQ community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edmund White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299302644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299302641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Edmund White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990125117695,"sku":"9780299302641","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_03321c38-1722-43d5-81eb-d6de7a731275.jpg?v=1683303139","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/states-of-desire-revisited-edmund-white-9780299302641","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}