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I am Not Myself These Days

I am Not Myself These Days

by JoshKilmer-Purcell (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $3.76

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    Paperback 2006

    $4.63
Synopsis

Josh Kilmer-Purcell lived a double life. By day, he was a successful young advertising executive. By night, he would trade in his corporate uniform for high heels and sequins, and perform in downtown New York nightclubs as a drag queen called Acquadisiac before returning to the uptown penthouse he shared with his crack-addicted male escort boyfriend. In this powerfully written, emotional rollercoaster of a memoir, Kilmer-Purcell blends the glittering and highly dramatic world of nightclubs, drugs and drag with a soulful and ironic perspective on his own journey through love and life. Told with a raw and honest voice that conveys hard truths with unflinching courage, I Am Not Myself These Days is a stunningly witty and ultimately deeply moving tour de force by a remarkable new talent.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Corgi Books
Published: 04 Jun 2007
ISBN 10: 0552154660
ISBN 13: 9780552154666
Book Overview: A stunning memoir of drag, drugs and doomed love, for fans of James Frey, David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs

Media Reviews
Absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking and heartfelt 'Sex, drugs, money, men dressed as women, women trying to care for them, real jobs and pretend jobs, make-up and glitter and high heels and fake tits and goldfish, true love, doomed love, crazy stupid destructive love, big expensive apartments, dirty trash strewn alleys, heartbreak and loneliness, disco balls and dance clubs, pain pain pain and beautiful New York City, I Am Not Myself These Days is a wonderful book, a ridiculous book, a sad and beautiful book, a book I'll read again, a book I highly recommend.' James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces 'I AM NOT MYSELF THESE DAYS is a glittering, bittersweet vision of an outsider who turned himself into the life and soul of the party. Kilmer-Purcell's cast is part freak-show, part soap opera, but his prose is graced with such insight and wit that the laughter is revelatory, and the tears - and there are tears to be shed along this extraordinary journey - are shed for people in whom everybody will find something of themselves. In a word, wonderful.' Clive Barker 'Bright Lights, Big City in high hair and falsies' -- Liz Smith Jaw-dropping Entertainment Weekly
Author Bio
After retiring from drag in 2000, Josh Kilmer-Purcell refocused on his advertising career, winning numerous awards, and is now a partner in a creative advertising agency in lower Manhattan. He lives on New York's Upper East Side with his partner of five years.