000			02880cam a22004698i 4500
001			on1125274788
003			OCoLC
005			20200604151334.0
008			191021s2020 scu b 000 1 eng
010			_a 2019046338
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dBDX _dOCLCF _dTOH _dSO$ _dNZAUC _dLIV _dNFG
020			_a9781938235627 _q(hardback)
020			_a1938235622 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1125274788
042			_apcc
043			_an-us---
092			_aSickels, _bCarter
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aSickels, Carter, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe prettiest star / _cCarter Sickels.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aSpartanburg, SC : _bHub City Press, _c[2020]
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a295 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place, and family, he was once so desperate to escape. Set in 1986, a year after Rock Hudson's death shifted the public consciousness of the epidemic and brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America, The Prettiest Star is part Dog Years by Mark Doty and part Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt. But it is also an urgent story now: it a novel about the politics and fragility of the body; it is a novel about sex and shame. And it is a novel that speaks to the question of what home and family means when we try to forge a life for ourselves in a world that can be harsh and unpredictable. It is written at the far reaches of love and understanding, and zeroes in on the moments where those two forces reach for each other, and sometimes touch."-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAIDS (Disease) _xPatients _zUnited States _vFiction.
650		0	_aAIDS (Disease) _xSocial aspects _vFiction.
650		0	_aGay men _vFiction. _934858
650		0	_aGay men _xFamily relationships _vFiction. _9155024
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction. _93570
650		0	_aSmall cities _zAppalachian Region _vFiction.
650		0	_aNineteen eighties _vFiction. _9110093
651		0	_aAppalachian Region _vFiction. _959620
655		7	_aGay fiction. _2lcgft _9193612
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
655		7	_aSocial problem fiction. _2lcgft _9354719
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c310609 _d310609