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Product Identifiers
PublisherSemiotexte The Limited
ISBN-101635901839
ISBN-139781635901832
eBay Product ID (ePID)13057273460
Product Key Features
Book TitleI Could Not Believe It : the 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean Delear
Number of Pages216 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory & Criticism, American / African American, Diaries & Journals, Lgbt
Publication Year2023
GenreMusic, Literary Collections
AuthorSean Delear
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight9.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"What I love about this 'potent historical artifact of Black youth,' as Brontez Purnell describes it in his introduction, are its notes of uncertainty, lack of pretention and its persistent faith in tomorrow." --Andrew Durbin, Frieze
Dewey Decimal782.42166092
SynopsisA remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA's most influential artists of subsequent decades. When Sean DeLear died prematurely in Vienna in 2017, his friends discovered-among other treasures-an extensive diary kept at the age of fourteen. Still living with his Christian parents in the notoriously racist Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley, Sean wrote almost every day about crushes and hustling, waterbeds, blackmail, Donna Summer, gloryholes, racism, and shoplifting gay porn. DeLear would go on to become the frontman for the Los Angeles punk/powerpop band Glue. He was a punk musician, visual artist, intercontinental scenester, video vixen, party host, marijuana farmer, and sometime-collaborator of artists such as Kembra Pfahler and Vaginal Davis. DeLear's forgotten diaries capture a moment in Los Angeles underground and queer history when, as his friend the writer Cesar Padilla notes, "It wasn't cool at all to be trans, gay, queer or whatever. Those words weren't even in the vocabulary." I Could Not Believe It , Padilla continues, "is a raw fearless innocent gay Black kid's journey coming out into life at an incredible pre-AIDS period. It's not cognizant of being literature. It's as naive and forthcoming as it gets. It wasn't written with the desire to be published so Sean didn't hold back. Sean's goal was to be true to himself."
LC Classification NumberML420
