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Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love

Cultural Writing. Memoir. HEAVENLY BREAKFAST is Samuel R. Delaney's wise and vivid essay on urban communes and cooperatives in the winter of 'Sixty-seven/'Sixty-eight. It examines their function, structure, permanence, and impermanence as precisely as a sociological study. Because its method is narrative and anecdotal, however, it reads like a passionate memoir — a marvelous document from an extraordinary time. Based on journals he kept at the time, these pages recount his encounters with other communes and experimental living arrangements-some gentle, some brutal; of encounters between those inside and those outside the countercultural life; of idealism and hopes pushing against a resistant reality.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 116
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780917453335
  • Genres
  • memoir, biography, lgbt, queer, history
  • Release date
  • 1997