{"product_id":"blackouts-by-justin-torres-9781847083982","title":"Blackouts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlackouts\u003c\/em\u003e by Justin Torres begins with Juan Gay lying dying in a room in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert. There, a young man cares for him—a person whom Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the end approaches, the two trade stories, resurrecting lost loves, mothers, and fathers, and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of sexuality, pathology, and oppression. Through their conversations, another story is revealed—that of the radical queer anthropologist Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was co-opted and stifled by the committee she served.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending fact with fiction, and drawing on oral histories and historical records, screenplay, testimony, and image, \u003cem\u003eBlackouts\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure—on the ways in which stories sustain histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46997941551340,"sku":"9781847083982","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12c055a62b02c5bfc7d40a212861d35d.jpg?v=1763237856","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/blackouts-by-justin-torres-9781847083982","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}