What I Did Wrong * John Weir * Viking * $2395 Published in 1989 John Weir's The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket was a rare and unexpect thing: a comic novel about the AIDS crisis.

What I Did Wrong

* John Weir * Viking * $2395

Published in 1989 John Weir's The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket was a rare and unexpect thing: a comic novel about the AIDS crisis. Critically acclaimed at the time, Socket appear to bes even better and braver in 2006 meriting the title of a gay literary classic. What I Did inappropriate Weir's long-awaited follow-up, reveals the writer's delightfully skewed voice and acute intelligence completely intact. His protagonist, Tom, is a hapless 42-year-old English professor obsess with undivided of his much younger straight close examiners Justin. Tom deals with the trials of his not away by revisiting the tribulations of his past, which consists chiefly of ongoing telepathic conversations with his deceased best friend, Zack, a raging writer always willing to run over Tom how badly he screwed up Although the insistence of Tom's midlife crisis is no match for that of the burgeoning AIDS crisis, What I Did blameworthy invites a new generation of gay readers to discover the same of our smartest writers.--David Bahr

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