Long Day Counting Tomorrow A Novel

Jim Feast (Author)

$14.95

Publisher: Autonomedia
Format: Book
Binding: pb
Pages: 172
Released: October 31, 2017
ISBN-13: 9781570273292

Rasken Hasp is dying of AIDS, given only a few months to live. Then someone tries to kill him.

“Raskin Hasp, the paranoiac, dourly funny, HIV-positive hero ofJim Feast’s nonlinear trip of a novel, goes down the rabbit hole in order to avenge a fellow patient’s suspicious death and, in the bargain, save himself. Finding humor amidst life-threatening illness is never easy, but Feast pulls it off. “Like a bombshell hitting a major chord” (to use one of Feast’s own gleefully mixed metaphors), Long Day, Counting Tomorrow is a loopy, vinegary, but ultimately — and unexpectedly — solemn tale of narcissists and wisecrackers, junkies and AIDS activists, trying to make sense of an epidemic that has always been a matter of politics and prejudice as much as viral counts and body fluids.”— Patrick E. Horrigan, author of Portraits at an Exhibition

“In Long Day, Counting Tomorrow, Jim Feast gives a panoramic view of the social chaos, community energy and despair during the height of the AIDS crisis. Many of the poet-activists in this novel face eminent death while dealing with a medical and political system compromised by money-grubbing, corporate fame seekers. The characters try to sabotage institutions, detour their misguided efforts and uncover the truth. A suspicious acting doctor who owns a hospice for AIDS patients — that’s the mystery that drives the novel, but there is a far greater mystery here: Why are we dying? An exceptional storyteller, Feast moves fluidly from one conversation to another, fracturing time and place while spinning forward with the energy of those who insist on living a vibrant activist life, even while facing early death. After the Gay Pride Parade, one of the characters reflects: ‘The nebula. It looks like that. Like a great circle of interlocked elbows.’ This novel is funny, sad, ironic and absolutely a must read to understand where we have been and where we are now.”— Barbara Henning, author of A Day Like Today

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