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    Dark Reflections

    By Samuel R. Delany

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    "A writer of seemingly limitless range." — Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.

    This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of Arnold Hawley, a gay African American poet. The tale unfolds in three non-chronological parts, starting in the twenty-first century with Hawley's lonely old age and the failure of his latest volume of poetry. The narrative then retreats to the 1970s to recount Hawley's impulsive marriage to a homeless woman. A final section revisits the poet's student days, during which an aborted sexual encounter sets the pattern for a lifetime of regrets and missed opportunities. A meditation on isolation and sexual repression, Dark Reflections also offers an acerbic look at the literary world and the frustrations intrinsic to artistic life.

    "A devastating and beautifully written study of the loneliness and despair that so often accompany the life of the mind in America." — Publishers Weekly

    "Dark Reflections is among the most detailed, thoughtful, and heartbreaking portrayals of a writer's life." — Los Angeles Review of Books
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateDec 19, 2019
    ISBN9780486845692
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    Samuel R. Delany

    Samuel R. Delany published his first novel, The Jewels of Aptor, at the age of twenty. Throughout his storied career, he has received four Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards, and in 2008 his novel Dark Reflections won the Stonewall Book Award. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002, named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2014, and in 2016 was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Delany’s works also extend into memoir, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society. After many years as a professor of English and creative writing and director of the graduate creative writing program at Temple University, he retired from teaching in 2015. He lives in Philadelphia with his partner, Dennis Rickett.  

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      At times depressing, this is a novel about loneliness and how it can completely invade our lives if we allow it to do so, and how growing old can make it even worse. Also about "tapes" and how we run them in our lives and how they can run us...