num_pages: 212
description: In these stories, Samuel R. Delany explores the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and self.We begin with Model 1924, a short novel that tells of a young African-American's first six months in 1920s New York, and of the sharp contrast between his experiences there and his childhood and adolescence in North Carolina.In a fictive meditation on the artist's childhood, "Erik, Gwen, and D.H. Lawrence's Esthetic of Unrectified Feeling" traces the development of a formalist esthetic even as it shows the place of transgression within that very esthetic."Citre et Trans" tells of a black American writer's sojourn in Greece in the mid-1960s.
language: English
title: Atlantis: Three Tales
titlecomplete: Atlantis: Three Tales
genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Queer, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literature, Short Stories, LGBT
ratings_count: 163
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
publisher: Wesleyan University Press