This Wild Darkness (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Aaron Roy Weintraub
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1993-1995
- Setting: New York City; and Venice, Italy
- Principal Characters: Harold Brodkey, Ellen Schwamm, Dr. Barry Hartman, Charles Yordy, Max Weintraub, Joe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Marriage, Child abuse, Death or dying, AIDS, Terminal illness or terminally ill
- Locales: New York, NY, Venice, Italy
Despite an on-and-off homosexual orientation that resulted in his being actively gay in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Harold Brodkey had little cause to suspect that the sudden onset of severe breathing problems in the spring of 1993 had anything to do with AIDS. Brodkey abandoned his gay lifestyle in 1977 and, according to what he reveals about his sexuality, did not slip back into it even momentarily at any time after that. Married to novelist Ellen Schwamm, Brodkey was some sixteen years past his last homosexual encounter when he fell ill and was rushed to the emergency room of a New...
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