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I Am Not Myself These Days : A Memoir
Harper Perennial

I Am Not Myself These Days : A Memoir

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I Am Not Myself These Days
Author(s): Josh Kilmer-Purcell

“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

“Absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking and heartfelt.” —Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City

The New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoir of a young New Yorker's daring dual life—advertising art director by day, glitter-dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty-pageant hopeful by night—was a smash literary debut for Josh Kilmer-Purcell, now known for his popular Planet Green television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. His story begins here—before the homemade goat milk soaps and hand-gathered honeys, before his memoir of the city mouse’s move to the country, The Bucolic Plague—in I Am Not Myself These Days, with “plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight” (Washington Post).



Review(s):
“I laughed. I cried. I laughed again. I Am Not Myself These Days is tawdry and brilliantly witty.”
“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.”
“Absolutely hilarious and heartbreaking and heartfelt.”
“[Kilmer-Purcell’s] trenchant memoir captures the madcap rush of the once-closeted arriviste’s first brush with city life, a fall from innocence that still haunts him. . . he retells the saga. . . with levelheaded grace.”
“This life-altering (and ultimately heartbreaking) love story crawls deep into your veins, keeping you up late into the night and distracting you during the day.”
“A painfully dysfunctional love story. . . that many readers will likely be able to relate to.”
“A delicate narrative that spares not an ounce of pain but never once aims for contrition. Effortlessly entertaining yet still heartfelt; the romance of life as an escape artist.”
“The exact, unpitying detail with which Kilmer-Purcell depicts his downward spiral makes it impossible to look away.”
"At once a sensational memoir and. . . a universal love story.”
“Plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight.”



ISBN:  9780060817329