{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuillaume Dustan (1965-2005) worked as an administrative judge in France before turning to writing full-time. He is the author of eight books, including the award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eNicolas Pages\u003c\/i\u003e. He was posthumously awarded the Prix Sade in 2013.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50520044372242,"sku":"9781635901429","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_080dd7d3-f469-4d4d-9a21-0397005af86f.jpg?v=1731075448","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-works-of-guillaume-dustan-volume-1-in-my-room-im-going-out-tonight-stronger-than-me-9781635901429","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}