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"Daring, dazzling... a tough, funny, heart-breaking book." — Seattle Times
"[A] refreshing statement of honesty and endurance ... funny, brave, full of heart and willing to say things about war and disease, sexual and cultural politics that have rarely been said so boldly or directly before." — The Sunday Oregonian
When National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle finalist Rabih Alameddine's dazzling literary debut Koolaids was first published, it garnered exuberant praise from Amy Tan, Rick Wallach, and Sarah Schulman, among others.
Set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut during the eighties and nineties, Koolaids explores the impact on a circle of friends and family. It mines the chaos of contemporary experience, telling stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments. Through clips, quips, vignettes, hallucinations, tragic news reports, hilarious short plays, and conversations with both the quick and the dead, it reveals how we experience life today.
"Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a new life." — Yiyun Li
"Rabih Alameddine is one of our most daring writers—daring not in the cheap sense of lurid or racy, but as a surgeon, a philosopher, an explorer, or a dancer." — Michael Chabon
"[A] refreshing statement of honesty and endurance ... funny, brave, full of heart and willing to say things about war and disease, sexual and cultural politics that have rarely been said so boldly or directly before." — The Sunday Oregonian
When National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle finalist Rabih Alameddine's dazzling literary debut Koolaids was first published, it garnered exuberant praise from Amy Tan, Rick Wallach, and Sarah Schulman, among others.
Set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut during the eighties and nineties, Koolaids explores the impact on a circle of friends and family. It mines the chaos of contemporary experience, telling stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments. Through clips, quips, vignettes, hallucinations, tragic news reports, hilarious short plays, and conversations with both the quick and the dead, it reveals how we experience life today.
"Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a new life." — Yiyun Li
"Rabih Alameddine is one of our most daring writers—daring not in the cheap sense of lurid or racy, but as a surgeon, a philosopher, an explorer, or a dancer." — Michael Chabon
| Brand: | Books |
| SKU: | 9780802124142 |
| Store: | Ciel |
| Brand: | Books |
| SKU: | 9780802124142 |
| Store: | Ciel |
