{"product_id":"a-last-supper-of-queer-apostles-selected-essays-9780143137085","title":"A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Translation Prize* \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These days, when an American president has decreed that 'there are only two genders: male and female' . . . an undaunted, lyrical voice from a southern corner of the hemisphere offers a model of resistance.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Intoxicating . . . Sexy, political and deeply humane . . . We all owe Penguin Classics a round of shots for \u003ci\u003eA Last Supper of Queer Apostles\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated \"melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds\" (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now in English for the first time \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I speak from my difference,\" wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist living through Chile's AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In brilliantly innovative essays--known as \u003ci\u003ecrónicas\u003c\/i\u003e--that combine memoir, reportage, fiction, history, and poetry, he brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities, the poor, and the powerless. Touching on everything from Che Guevara to Elizabeth Taylor, from the aftermath of authoritarian rule to the daily lives of Chile's \u003ci\u003elocas\u003c\/i\u003e--a slur for trans women and effeminate gay men that he boldly reclaims--his writing infuses political urgency with playfulness, realism with absurdism, and resistance with camp, and his AIDS \u003ci\u003ecrónicas\u003c\/i\u003e immortalize a generation of Chileans doubly \"disappeared\" by casting each \u003ci\u003eloca, \u003c\/i\u003e as she falls sick, in the starring role of her own private tragedy. This volume brings together the best of his work, introducing readers of English to the subversive genius of a literary activist and queer icon whose acrobatic explorations of the Santiago demimonde reverberate around the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pedro Lemebel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143137085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePedro Lemebel\u003c\/b\u003e (1952-2015) is considered one of the most important queer writers of twentieth-century Latin America and was also an activist and a performance artist. Born in Santiago, Chile, he became a renowned voice of Latin American counterculture during the Pinochet dictatorship and its aftermath. He received Chile's José Donoso Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is best known for his \u003ci\u003ecrónicas\u003c\/i\u003e and one novel, \u003ci\u003eMy Tender Matador\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and was adapted in 2020 into a critically acclaimed film by Chilean director Rodrigo Sepúlveda. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGwendolyn Harper \u003c\/b\u003e(editor\/translator) won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Work in Progress grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation for \u003ci\u003eA Last Supper of Queer Apostles\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds an MFA from Brown University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIdra Novey\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is the award-winning author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWays to Disappear\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThose Who Knew\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTake What You Need\u003c\/i\u003e. She lived in Chile for several years, returns often, and has translated work by various Chilean writers, including Nona Fernández and Marco Antonio de la Parra. Her own work has been translated into a dozen languages, and she's written for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, The New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches fiction writing at Princeton University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43778283372659,"sku":"9.78014E+12","price":20.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_6bdd3a76-62b1-490a-8dd4-1981360412ce.jpg?v=1757507690","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/a-last-supper-of-queer-apostles-selected-essays-9780143137085","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}