| bald ambition Contributor(s): Carpenter, Brent Dorian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1420845861 ISBN-13: 9781420845860 Publisher: Authorhouse OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - African American |
| Dewey: 809.898 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6" W x 9" (1.14 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bald Ambition is a potpourri of ideas, essays, writing styles and assorted madness representing a unique voice of black gayness regurgitated from the ghetto bowels of Detroit Brent's Fagenda and Brent Reloaded From 2001 through 2004, the outrageous, thought-provoking, award-winning column in the Detroit-based Between The Lines newspaper chronicled the life of the writer struggling to cope with the everyday freak shows and fallacies of being black, gay, HIV-positive and bipolar in America. Includes such classic essays as "Dreading the Term 'N-Word' More than the Word Itself," "C'mon, Baby, Let Me Just Stick the Head In," "In Search of the Perfect Orgy," "When the Bottom Falls Out of the Market," "Girl, He Tore my Guts Out," and "When are You Queens Going to Let Go of Astrology " Historically Black, Historically Gay 40 short bios and beautifully rendered drawings of black gay historical figures, including Barbara Jordan, George Washington Carver, Angela Davis, Bayard Rustin, Billie Holiday, Benjamin Banneker and many more Black Pride Diaries A snapshot of the Black Gay Pride circuit as witnessed by the writer during three summers of book tours Verse Perverse A twisted collection of five very naughty black gay erotic fantasies, including the unspeakably blunt "Prisoners of Lust " Don't miss out on this groundbreaking latest work from the up-and-coming writer of the electrifying novels Man of the Cloth, This Time Around, and The 21st Century Chronicles of Thugg the Barbarian King |