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Autobiography / Gay & Lesbian Interest / Disability / Jewish Interest

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Body, Remember A Memoir Kenny Fries With a new preface Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies David Bergman and Joan Larkin, Series Editors "Kenny Fries is an encyclopedia of otherness-gay, Jewish, disabled. Yet, as Body, Remember documents so fully, he is not the sum of these conditions."—David Bergman In this poetic, introspective memoir, Kenny Fries illustrates his intersecting identities as gay, Jewish, and disabled. While learning about the history of his body through medical records and his physical scars, Fries discovers just how deeply the memories and psychic scars run. As he reflects on his relationships with his family, his compassionate doctor, the brother who resented his disability, and the men who taught him to love, he confronts the challenges of his life. Body, Remember is a story about connection, a redemptive and passionate testimony to one man's search for the sources of identity and difference. "A remarkable memoir."—Out "Refreshing in its lack of false inspirational tone. . . . To shape into coherence the raw material of almost unbearable life experience is always a form of victory. . . . I wanted to shout hallelujah."—San Francisco Bay Guardian Kenny Fries lives in Northhampton, Massachusetts, and teaches in the MFA program at Goddard College. He is the editor of Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out. For more information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

BACK IN PRINT September 2003 LC: 2003045825 PS 248 pp.  5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN 0-299-19054-4 Paper $22.95 t Wisconsin edition for sale only in the United States and U.S. dependencies, and in Canada. To order, you can accumulate titles in the Shopping Cart by clicking on the bulleted lines below. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with MasterCard or Visa. Click here for further explanation of shopping cart feature. Never ordered from us before? Read this first.