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A Parisian from Kansas is a quixotic, erotic, and thoroughly spellbinding work about expatriate life in Paris, about a writer creating a novel, and about a raw-boned, HIV-positive American named Darren Swenson who wants to be made immortal in the book he asks Philippe Tapon to write.
Shockingly graphic, yet delicately structured, A Parisian from Kansas folds back in upon itself as Darren visits his farmer parents in Kansas, meets lovers, and dies several times as the action accelerates toward a tragic but life-affirming finale. With Paris as a backdrop and an all-pervasive presence, Philippe Tapon, both character and author, writes about heiresses, intellectuals, the devil himself, and jeunesse doree, as he follows the witty, iconoclastic Darren's last days of life.
A Boswell to this Johnson from Kansas, he is scribbling madly all the while. The result is alternatively phantasmagoric, hallucinatory, and journalistic - an eyewitness account of a man's dying and a novel's being born.
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Fiction, Americans, HIV-positive persons, Authors, Tapon, Philippe -- Fiction., Americans -- France -- Fiction., HIV-positive persons -- Fiction., Authors -- Fiction., Paris (France) -- Fiction., France, fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Gay men, fiction, Aids (disease), fictionShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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