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Brontez Purnell Sean Delear I Could Not Believe It (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- I Could Not Believe It : the 1979 Teenage Diaries of SEAN Delear
- Publication Name
- I Could Not Believe It
- Title
- I Could Not Believe It
- Subtitle
- The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781635901832
- ISBN
- 9781635901832
- Publisher
- Semiotexte The Limited
- Genre
- Music, Literary Collections
- Release Date
- 14/03/2023
- Release Year
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Topic
- History & Criticism, American / African American, Diaries & Journals, Lgbt
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 9.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 216 Pages
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A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA's most influential artists of subsequent decades. When Sean DeLear died prematurely in Vienna in 2017, his friends discovered-among other treasures-an extensive diary kept at the age of fourteen. Still living with his Christian parents in the notoriously racist Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley, Sean wrote almost every day about crushes and hustling, waterbeds, blackmail, Donna Summer, gloryholes, racism, and shoplifting gay porn. DeLear would go on to become the frontman for the Los Angeles punk/powerpop band Glue. He was a punk musician, visual artist, intercontinental scenester, video vixen, party host, marijuana farmer, and sometime-collaborator of artists such as Kembra Pfahler and Vaginal Davis. DeLear's forgotten diaries capture a moment in Los Angeles underground and queer history when, as his friend the writer Cesar Padilla notes, "It wasn't cool at all to be trans, gay, queer or whatever. Those words weren't even in the vocabulary." I Could Not Believe It , Padilla continues, "is a raw fearless innocent gay Black kid's journey coming out into life at an incredible pre-AIDS period. It's not cognizant of being literature. It's as naive and forthcoming as it gets. It wasn't written with the desire to be published so Sean didn't hold back. Sean's goal was to be true to himself."
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Publisher
Semiotexte The Limited
ISBN-10
1635901839
ISBN-13
9781635901832
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13057273460
Product Key Features
Book Title
I Could Not Believe It : the 1979 Teenage Diaries of SEAN Delear
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, American / African American, Diaries & Journals, Lgbt
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Music, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml420
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"What I love about this 'potent historical artifact of Black youth,' as Brontez Purnell describes it in his introduction, are its notes of uncertainty, lack of pretention and its persistent faith in tomorrow." --Andrew Durbin, Frieze
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Dewey Decimal
782.42166092
Dewey Edition
23
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