{"product_id":"what-i-did-wrong-paperback-softback-9780823299454","title":"What I Did Wrong (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823299454","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhat I Did Wrong\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Weir (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823299454\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 May 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.342 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a rapidly gentrifying New York City determined to move beyond the decimation of a generation a decade earlier, \u003ci\u003eWhat I Did Wrong \u003c\/i\u003eis a day in the life of Tom, a forty-two-year-old English professor, haunted by the death of his best friend, Zack, who died theatrically and calamitously of AIDS. Tom himself slouches gingerly and precariously into middle age questioning every certainty he had about himself as a gay man while negotiating the field of his college classes, populated as they are with guys whose cocky bravado can't quite compensate for their own confused masculinity. Tom tries to balance his awkwardly developing friendships with them. In the process, he begins to find common ground with these proud young men and, surprisingly, a way to claim his own place in the world, and in history.\u003cbr\u003e A powerfully moving—and often disarmingly funny—book about loss, character, and sexuality in the wake of AIDS, \u003ci\u003eWhat I Did Wrong \u003c\/i\u003eis a survivor's tale in an age when all certainties have lost their logic and focus. It is a romance that embraces its objects from the traumas of toxic masculinity to the aftermath of catastrophic loss amidst the enduring allure of New York City in all its manic and heartbreaking grandeur.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Gender Trouble\u003c\/b\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e Texas is the Reason   3\u003cbr\u003e Deadguy   25\u003cbr\u003e Youthanasia   45\u003cbr\u003e Songs for Swinging Lovers   63\u003cbr\u003e Where Do You See Yourself?   79\u003cbr\u003e Already Gone   103\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Open Secrets\u003c\/b\u003e   123\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSick Fuck\u003c\/i\u003e   125\u003cbr\u003e They Live by Night   149\u003cbr\u003e How To Disappear Completely   167\u003cbr\u003e Kevin Spacey Has a Secret   193\u003cbr\u003e The Destiny of Me   211\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAbgesturzt \u003c\/i\u003e  229\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"New York ReLit","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580467441944,"sku":"9780823299454","price":12.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/what-i-did-wrong-paperback-softback-9780823299454","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}