{"product_id":"the-works-of-guillaume-dustan-volume-1-in-my-room-im-going-out-tonight-stronger-than-me-9781635901429","title":"The Works of Guillaume Dustan, Volume 1: In My Room; I'm Going Out Tonight; Stronger Than Me","description":"\u003cb\u003eGuillaume Dustan' first three novels, published in French between 1996 and 1998, describing the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Paris still haunted by AIDS.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume collects a suite of three wildly entertaining and trailblazing short novels by the legendary French anti-assimilationist LGBTQ+ writer Guillaume Dustan. Published sequentially in France between 1996 and 1998, the three novels are exuberant and deliberately affectless accounts of the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Parisian club and bath scene still haunted by AIDS. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn My Room\u003c\/i\u003e (1996) takes place almost entirely in the narrator's bedroom. The middle volume, \u003ci\u003eI'm Going Out Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) finds him venturing out onto the gay scene in one long night. Finally, in \u003ci\u003eStronger Than Me\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) the narrator reflects on his early life, which coincided with the appearance and spread of the AIDS virus in France. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA close contemporary of Dennis Cooper, Brett Easton Ellis, Kevin Killian, and Gary Indiana, Guillaume Dustan's deadpan autofiction is at once satirical and intimate, and completely contemporary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635901429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384","brand":"Guillaume Dustan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40139175395509,"sku":"9781635901429","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5ffdf825-6f3e-4072-b92a-b7a758f883c3.jpg?v=1622520222","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-works-of-guillaume-dustan-volume-1-in-my-room-im-going-out-tonight-stronger-than-me-9781635901429","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}