Autobiography of a Tattoo

Stan Persky

ISBN 10: 0921586620 / ISBN 13: 9780921586623

Published by New Star Books, 1997

Bibliographic Details

Synopsis:

Autobiography of a Tattoo is an investigative literary work about the education and pursuit of homosexual desire. Its mixture of serial stories and

modernist meditations invites readers on a journey that rangers from post–Wall Berlin to Plato’s Athens. Stan Persky, the author of Buddy’s and Then We

Take Breaks, here breaks through the current impasse of contemporary gay/queer writing.

Innovative in both form and content, Autobiography of a Tattoo probes the tensions between the memory and anticipation of desire, sexual representation

and moral relationships, the illuminating glimpse of the immediate and the long view of civilization. Can writing be both hot and thoughtful, intimate and

analytic? Find out why Stan Persky is the most important writer about homosexuality in North America today.

About the Author:

Stan Persky is the author of more than a dozen books, including Topic Sentence, Buddy’s: A Meditation on Desire and The Short Version, which won a

BC Book Prize for non–fiction in 2006. He teaches philosophy at Capilano University and lives in Berlin and Vancouver.