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For years Gerald lived for his twin passions, acting and sex. As a handsome young actor, he found plenty of opportunities to perform in both arenas. But that was years ago, long before AIDS hit the theater world hard — and gay circles even harder. No in demand, Gerald is waiting to die. He's drawn up a last will and testament, assigned a health care proxy, arranged his own cremation, has thrown out hundreds of photos accrued over his twenty-five years of acting, along with boxes of gay porn and his journals. Gerald's acquired a hefty collection of barbiturates for when things get too "icky." Just when things appear the worse, William Weiss calls and Gerald’s life is resurrected. An eccentric avant-garde director, Weiss invites Gerald to perform in a play in Sicily. As a founding member of Weiss’s first company, Gerald is aware of the director’s cult-like hold over actors, but he accepts. From the first rehearsal, Weiss nurtures the chaos in which he is most at home. Gerald’s health remains precarious, but as opening night approaches, the play begins to take shape. Gerald's spirits soar as he reconnects with lost joy.
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Keith McDermott is a novelist and actor. His writing has appeared in Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction, Boys Like Us, and Loss within Loss, as well as in the James White Review. As an actor, Keith has worked on, off, and off-off Broadway, making his Broadway debut opposite Richard Burton in Equus. He has worked with director Robert Wilson in America, Europe, Russia, and Japan. He lives in New York City.
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The revitalizing power of art drives this novel by a longtime theater actor, who acquits himself well in this debut. Suffering from AIDS, middle-aged actor Gerald Barnett is pulled off his deathbed by a call from his former mentor, the famous avant-garde director William Weiss. Weiss is a world-class eccentric, self-obsessed and prone to braying periodically that his work is a "diSASter." But Gerald knows that "his years acting in Bill's company had been the best of his life," and so despite his poor health, he makes an arduous trip to Sicily for one last glorious production. Despite the hectic pace, Gerald holds up pretty well, and he's further reinvigorated by an unexpected affair with Enzo, one of the local Italian actors. At the same time, the combination of a skin condition and Gerald's own vanity cause him to forgo his medications--a decision that puts him at risk as the show nears its opening night. McDermott ably captures the heady excitement of theater life, and surrounds Gerald with an eclectic, international cast, even if many of the characters are more like cultural types than individuals. Invested with a thoughtful humanity, this novel mostly steers clear of sentimentality. (Mar.)
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