Dark Rides
Subtitle: A Novel in Stories
Publisher: Gutter Press
Published: March 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9781896356068
Subjects: Modern fiction; American First Novelists; Fiction; Fiction - General; General
Description: A gay teenager named Derek McCormack describes life in a small town in 1952. Unable to voice his forbidden desires to himself or anyone else, Derek moves like an automaton through a world that notices him only when he self-destructs. He is an ephemeral being obsessed with ephemera - fireworks, midway rides, holiday ornaments, country music stars. Illustrated with period photographs of midways, Dark Rides is an unprecedented exploration of the production of identity and the machinery of desire.