Blue Fingernails.
Publisher: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue
Published: 2005
Place of publication: S.l
Language: eng
Description: This collection of 15 short stories explores the difficulties and pleasures of being a gay or lesbian Puerto Rican in a postmodern world. The tales touch on gay experiences in cities and outside of them, at times incorporating elements of science fiction, vampires, detectives, and fantasy with characters who live in the present and future. Alternating between humor and sadness, these stories are meant for readers who are not afraid of controversial ideas or taboo topics like sadomasochism, transvestism, prostitution, and pornography. Their style is intimate, sometimes experimental or metaliterary, with intertextual allusions to the work of other gay writers such Manuel Ramos Otero, Manuel Puig, and David Wojnarowicz. Bilingual edition \"Hilarious but vulnerable, over-the-top but deadly smart, Larry La Fountain-Stokes\' stories are songs of despair, joy, poignancy and crazy optimism.\" -- Achy Obejas, author of Memory Mambo and We came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like That?.