The Resource I should have known better, William E. Jones
I should have known better, William E. Jones
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The item I should have known better, William E. Jones represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item I should have known better, William E. Jones represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "While working at a dead-end job in Los Angeles during the mid-1990s, [the narrator] reconnects with his best friend Moira, recently returned from Central America, and makes a new friend, Bernie, who teaches the history of photography. The two of them convince him to pursue a master's degree as a way of escaping the unrewarding life of a video store clerk. Once the narrator is exposed to an academic environment, he takes a dim view of the education that art school has to offer, but is happy to meet a group of talented fellow students who become close friends. He encounters a number of art world figures, ranging from the brilliant to the abject, who disabuse him of his illusions. The narrator has his most instructive experiences off campus, especially a love affair with the handsome and mercurial Temo, an insolent rich kid who leads a double life. Together they explore their sexual limits in scenes of bracing explicitness. I Should Have Known Better bears witness to the last gasp of Los Angeles bohemia at the end of the twentieth century ... [and] paints precise portraits of inspired eccentrics devoted to pursuing their dreams, 'shopping artists' who believe in nothing but hedonism, and latter-day leftists who find themselves directionless after the fall of communism. Above all, the book pays tribute to the impulsive experiments and intense friendships of youth"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 223 pages
- Note
- Sequel to: I'm open to anything
- Isbn
- 9780578761800
- Label
- I should have known better
- Title
- I should have known better
- Statement of responsibility
- William E. Jones
- Title variation
-
- I should've known better
- Should've known better
- Should have known better
- Subject
-
- Art schools -- Fiction
- Art students
- Art students -- Fiction
- Artists
- Artists -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- California
- California -- Los Angeles
- California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Clerks (Retail trade)
- Clerks (Retail trade) -- Fiction
- Erotic fiction
- Erotic fiction
- Fiction
- 1900-1999
- Gay college students -- Fiction
- Gay fiction
- Gay fiction
- Gay men
- Gay men -- California | Los Angeles -- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- Nineteen nineties
- Nineteen nineties -- Fiction
- Video rental services
- Video rental services -- Fiction
- Gay college students
- Art schools
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "While working at a dead-end job in Los Angeles during the mid-1990s, [the narrator] reconnects with his best friend Moira, recently returned from Central America, and makes a new friend, Bernie, who teaches the history of photography. The two of them convince him to pursue a master's degree as a way of escaping the unrewarding life of a video store clerk. Once the narrator is exposed to an academic environment, he takes a dim view of the education that art school has to offer, but is happy to meet a group of talented fellow students who become close friends. He encounters a number of art world figures, ranging from the brilliant to the abject, who disabuse him of his illusions. The narrator has his most instructive experiences off campus, especially a love affair with the handsome and mercurial Temo, an insolent rich kid who leads a double life. Together they explore their sexual limits in scenes of bracing explicitness. I Should Have Known Better bears witness to the last gasp of Los Angeles bohemia at the end of the twentieth century ... [and] paints precise portraits of inspired eccentrics devoted to pursuing their dreams, 'shopping artists' who believe in nothing but hedonism, and latter-day leftists who find themselves directionless after the fall of communism. Above all, the book pays tribute to the impulsive experiments and intense friendships of youth"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- IG$
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1962-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jones, William E.
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Gay men
- Video rental services
- Clerks (Retail trade)
- Gay college students
- Art students
- Art schools
- Artists
- Bildungsromans
- Nineteen nineties
- California
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Art schools
- Art students
- Artists
- Bildungsromans
- Clerks (Retail trade)
- Gay college students
- Gay men
- Manners and customs
- Nineteen nineties
- Video rental services
- California
- California
- Label
- I should have known better, William E. Jones
- Note
- Sequel to: I'm open to anything
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1268211520
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 223 pages
- Isbn
- 9780578761800
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- I should have known better, William E. Jones
- Note
- Sequel to: I'm open to anything
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1268211520
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 223 pages
- Isbn
- 9780578761800
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Art schools -- Fiction
- Art students
- Art students -- Fiction
- Artists
- Artists -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- California
- California -- Los Angeles
- California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Clerks (Retail trade)
- Clerks (Retail trade) -- Fiction
- Erotic fiction
- Erotic fiction
- Fiction
- 1900-1999
- Gay college students -- Fiction
- Gay fiction
- Gay fiction
- Gay men
- Gay men -- California | Los Angeles -- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- Nineteen nineties
- Nineteen nineties -- Fiction
- Video rental services
- Video rental services -- Fiction
- Gay college students
- Art schools
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