{"product_id":"the-motion-of-light-in-samuel-r-delany-9780816645244","title":"The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction \u003cbr\u003e The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city's new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decade's opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a black gay writer in an open marriage, with tertiary walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, W. H. Auden, and James Baldwin, and a panoply of brilliantly drawn secondary characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel R. Delany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816645248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816645244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.83w x 1.34d","brand":"Samuel R. Delany","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046076608767,"sku":"9780816645244","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7628ce63-c81c-40b8-9e7d-35f89b2dbc91.jpg?v=1684982487","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-motion-of-light-in-samuel-r-delany-9780816645244","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}