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Author: Jim Grimsley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1997-01-30
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0684829924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a novel as stunning and heartbreaking as his acclaimed debut work, Grimsley recounts the story of a painful first love--between two adolescent boys who bravely sustain each other in a world of domestic disintegration.
Author: David Deutsch
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2019-01-02
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1611179300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book-length study of an influential voice in contemporary queer American literature Since the early 1980s, Jim Grimsley has received increasing acclaim for his achievements in a variety of dramatic and literary genres. Through his novels, plays, and short stories, Grimsley portrays an unrelenting search for happiness and interrogates themes of corruption, technology, poverty, domestic abuse, sexuality, and faith in the contemporary United States. Through unique characters and a multitude of forms, the award-winning author explores the complexities of southern culture, his own troubled childhood, and larger pieces of the human experience. In Understanding Jim Grimsley, David Deutsch offers the first book-length study of Grimsley's diverse work and argues for his vital role in shaping the contemporary queer American literary scene. Deutsch helps readers navigate the intricacies of Grimsley's influential drama, fiction, and fantasy science fiction—including his most popular novel, Dream Boy—by weaving together discussions of common themes. Placing Grimsley's plays, novels, and short stories in conversation with one another, Deutsch reveals Grimsley's development throughout a career in which he has investigated hope and hardship, youth and maturity, experimentation and convention. Deutsch also provides vital historical and cultural contexts for understanding how Grimsley engages, expands, and challenges literary and theatrical traditions. Deutsch demonstrates a deep, critical understanding of Grimsley's hard-earned, pragmatic optimism. Intertwining Grimsley's major fiction and plays and contextualizing these within a broader American landscape, this volume brings his work more completely into the conversation on southern queer literature.
Author: Jim Grimsley
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-11-28
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780765305305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree hundred years after the Conquest, as the Great Mage rules over all humankind, the long peace is over as a mysterious and omnipotent force rises on the planet Aramen, where sentient trees keep human symbionts as slaves.
Author: Jim Grimsley
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781565124004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1978, Newell moves from a rural Alabama town to New Orleans, hoping to change his life, as he explores his homosexuality and the dark side of life in the city, in an evocative novel about the gay subculture of the late 1970s. Reprint.
Author: Jim Grimsley
Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlue Queen Athryn Ardfalla, having usurped from the Red King, Kirith Kirin, his rightful throne, has allied herself with an evil wizard, Drudaen Keerfax, and oppresses the people. The young shepherd Jessex, the son and grandson of witches, fulfills his destiny by entering the service of Kirith Kirin, who stays in the forest of Arthen. Jessex grows strong in his magical studies and fighting skills, finding both companionship and love in the company of the man he serves and discovering his crucial role in the battle against the evil that overshadows his land.
Author: Jim Grimsley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1998-01-27
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0684841231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe award-winning author of "Dream Boy" and "Winter Birds" weaves the moving tale of a woman determined to figure out if the visions that haunt her are merely dreams--or nightmares she has lived and forced herself to forget. "Each sentence bristles with equal parts rage and grace".--Kelly McQuain, "The Philadelphia Inquirer".
Author: Jim Grimsley
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2005-10
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780765305299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ordinary is a powerful and entrancing tale of magic, science, and the mysterious truth that binds them together. Jim Grimsley's novels and short stories have been favorably compared to the works of Samuel R. Delany, Jack Vance, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Now he unleashes an ambitious and audacious collision between science and magic. The Twil Gate links two very different realms. On one side of the portal is Senal, an advanced technological civilization of some thirty billion inhabitants, all cybernetically linked and at war with machine intelligences many light-years away. On the other side is Irion, a land of myth and legend, where the world is flat and mighty wizards once ruled. Jedda Martele is a linguist and trader from Senal. Although fascinated by the languages and cultures of Irion, she shares her people's assumption that Irion is backward and superstitious and no match for her homeland's superior numbers and technology. But as the two realms march inevitably toward war, Jedda finds herself at the center of historic, unimaginable events that will challenge everything she has ever believed about the world--and herself.
Author: Jim Grimsley
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2003-10-16
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1565127188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFord McKinney leads a charmed life: he's a young doctor possessing good looks, good breeding, and money. He comes from an old Savannah family where his parents, attentive to his future, focus their energies on finding their son--their golden boy--a girl to marry. But how charmed is this life when Ford's own heart suspects that he is not meant to spend his life with a woman? His suspicions are confirmed when he meets Dan Crell. Dan is a quiet man with a great voice. Behind the tempered facade of the shy hospital administrator is a singer who can transform a room with his soaring voice, leaving his listeners in awe and reverence. Ford catches one such Christmas concert and his life is never quite the same; he is touched in a place he keeps hidden, forbidden. When Ford and Dan begin to explore the limits of their relationship, Dan's own secrets are exposed--and his mysterious and painful childhood returns to haunt him. In Comfort and Joy Jim Grimsley finds a marriage between the stark and stunning pain of his prize-winning Winter Birds and the passion of critically acclaimed Dream Boy. In this, his fourth novel, he considers pressing questions. How does a man reconcile the child he was raised to be with the man that he truly is? What happens when an adult has to choose between his parents and a lover?
Author: Jim Grimsley
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781565122024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFour plays explore such human conflicts as those found between muscle men and drag queens, yuppies and the rural poor, and saints and sinners
Author: Jim Grimsley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1997-01-30
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0684829916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEight-year-old southerner Danny Crell recounts his premature entry into manhood, precipitated by a violent quarrel between his father, an abusive drunk, and his mother, whose emotional detachment is nearly as frightening.
