The Dark Eclipse

Autorentext

A.W. Barnes has a Ph.D. in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing. His nonfiction has appeared in Broad Street, The Away Journal, Gertrude Press, and Sheepshead Review. His academic book Post-Closet Masculinities in Early Modern England was published by Bucknell University Press in 2009. He lives in New York City.

Klappentext

A book of personal essays in which author Andrew Barnes seeks to come to terms with the suicide of his older brother, Mike. Using source documentation - the police report, autopsy, suicide note, and death certificate - the essays explore Barnes' relationship with Mike and their status as gay brothers raised in a conservative family in the Midwest.

Inhalt

1. A Complaint
2. The Letter
3. Salient Facts
4. Familial Bodies
5. Prospero's Books
6. Holiday Inn
7. Morta Sicura
   Acknowledgments