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The End Of San Francisco Breaks Apart The Conventions Of Memoir To Reveal The Passions And Perils Of A Life That Refuses To Conform To The Rules Of Straight Or Gay Normalcy. A Budding Queer Activist Escapes To San Francisco, In Search Of A World More Politically Charged, Sexually Saturated, And Ethically Consistent--this Is The Person Who Evolves Into Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Infamous Radical Queer Troublemaker, Organizer And Agitator, Community Builder, And Anti-assimilationist Commentator. Here Is The Tender, Provocative, And Exuberant Story Of The Formation Of One Of The Contemporary Queer Movement's Most Savvy And Outrageous Writers And Spokespersons. Using An Unrestrained Associative Style To Move Kaleidoscopically Between Past, Present, And Future, Sycamore Conjures The Untidy Push And Pull Of Memory, Exposing The Tensions Between Idealism And Critical Engagement, Trauma And Self-actualization, Inspiration And Loss. Part Memoir, Part Social History, And Part Elegy, The End Of San Francisco Explores And Explodes The Dream Of A Radical Queer Community And The Mythical City That Was Supposed To Nurture It.--publisher Description. The First Time -- Together -- The Texture Of

Author

Bernstein Sycamore, Mattilda

Publisher

City Lights Publishers

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780872866065

Subjects

Sociology, Biography, Gender Studies

Rating

4.02 / 5 (204 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14