The Motion Of Light In Water Samuel R. Delany

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Winner of the 1989 Hugo Award for Non-fiction

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The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village by Samuel R. Delany

Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction
The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography

Born in New York Citys 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 citys new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decades 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.

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"A very moving, intensely fascinating literary biography from an extraordinary writer. Thoroughly admirable candor and luminous stylistic precision; the artist as a young man and a memorable picture of an age."William Gibson

"Absolutely central to any consideration of black manhood. Delanys vision of the necessity for total social and political transformation is revolutionary."Hazel Carby

"The Motion of Light in Water captures, as if in a time capsule, what it was like to be a young, gifted person of color coming to adulthood from roughly 1956 to 1966. Delanys experiences show us that the past is never as simple or as safe as some would like to believe."American Literary History

"The prose of The Motion of Light in Water often has the shimmering beauty of the title itself. This book is invaluable gay history."Inches Magazine

About Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany is the author of numerous science fiction books including, Dhalgren and The Mad Man, as well as the best-selling nonfiction study Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. He lives in New York City and teaches at Temple University. The Lambda Book Report chose Delany as one of the fifty most significant men and women of the past hundred years to change our concept of gayness, and he is a recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetimes contribution to lesbian and gay literature.

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9780816645244

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0816645248

Title

The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village by Samuel R. Delany

Author

Samuel R. Delany

Condition

New

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Paperback

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Year published

2004-04-23

Number of pages

584

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