Old Gay Fabulous a memoir eBook Ken Sofronski
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He's unabashedly frank. He's unrepentantly funny. In short, he's just the sort of person you hope you run into at the next cocktail party. Irreverent raconteur, Ken Sofronski weaves wisecracks and wisdom in Old, Gay & Fabulous, his true account of one life lived definantly out loud. As the old saying goes, there are eight million stories in New York. This one just happens to be worth reading. With equal parts charm, cheek, and candor, this absolutely fabulous memoir looks back on his singular life, from high glitz to low times, and back to fabulous again. It's a story of survival, pluck, and a good dose of mischief that at once tears at the heart, lifts the spirits, and always entertains.
Old Gay Fabulous a memoir eBook Ken Sofronski
I could have waivered to a three, but this had some things many recent memoirs I've read, especially gay ones (now an OK thing to do), didn't. It didn't give me the "pity me" feeling. It wasn't arrogant or needy, nor someone telling me about an addiction or dysfunctional personality. Those can be interesting as long as it's not for self-validation (most are, or worse just out to make money, my view of course). I don't read memoirs for solutions to my life. There's no solution here either other than maybe you keep trying. Chance is the master and while this author could have done that part more justice. Its turn of the wheel is there in show business, auditions, who dies from AIDS. No, there is no mesmerizing prose as in Nabakov's Speak Memory or the dismal beauty of John Rechy as in City of Night or gay coming of age with guilt written in all its flavors as in Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story. To be honest, all three of these works are better to me, but that's taste and each is a long read. This is a gay man who got through it, not all that guilty, worn and mostly now alone, helping some along the way. If you want to read that can happen, this will do it for you. When I was a kid, I didn't think it possible.Product details
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Old Gay Fabulous a memoir eBook Ken Sofronski Reviews
Though the title implies a success story of navigating old-age in the gay world, there is very little of that in this slim, self-published book, which proclaims it's a "Pulitzer Prize contender." (Readers may know that anyone can be a nominee if they fill out a form self nominating themselves and pay a small fee.)
What's Sofronski experiences when he arrives at old age - described in the final 11 pages- is a perfect paradigm of the loneliness and alienation that a huge number of older gays feel.
Equally unfortunate is that the author lacks basic writing skills to capture the feel and texture of eras long gone. The encounters he describes more nearly resemble summary pages in your very own diary and less the reflective memoir it hopes to be. This thinness is a critical lack in that for most of his life he was a bystander rather than a full-scale participant to the sweep of events that surrounded him.
Perhaps someday someone will actually deliver what Sofronski promises. A way of handling the final years is sorely needed by more than a handful of older gays, including, evidently, Sofronski.
Loved it. Old NYC . Wish there were more of the fun stories. The heady times. A major success story when the emotional odds were stacked against him.
The author takes us on his life's journey through a wonderland of experiences from someone who left all his past behind and created a future of limitless possibilities. For those stuck in our own little worlds growing up, Ken makes the reader (myself included) wish one had had the courage to set out and see and meet people as he had. Highly recommended!
I could have waivered to a three, but this had some things many recent memoirs I've read, especially gay ones (now an OK thing to do), didn't. It didn't give me the "pity me" feeling. It wasn't arrogant or needy, nor someone telling me about an addiction or dysfunctional personality. Those can be interesting as long as it's not for self-validation (most are, or worse just out to make money, my view of course). I don't read memoirs for solutions to my life. There's no solution here either other than maybe you keep trying. Chance is the master and while this author could have done that part more justice. Its turn of the wheel is there in show business, auditions, who dies from AIDS. No, there is no mesmerizing prose as in Nabakov's Speak Memory or the dismal beauty of John Rechy as in City of Night or gay coming of age with guilt written in all its flavors as in Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story. To be honest, all three of these works are better to me, but that's taste and each is a long read. This is a gay man who got through it, not all that guilty, worn and mostly now alone, helping some along the way. If you want to read that can happen, this will do it for you. When I was a kid, I didn't think it possible.
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