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Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany; foreward by William Gibson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dhalgren about?

When this richly written novel first appeared in 1974, Samuel R. Delany began to sweep up what would eventually exceed a million readers with his tale of Bellona, a city at the center of the United States, shaken by a catastrophe that has unhinged the very structure of reality. Skies darkened by smoke from burning buildings, population reduced to youth gangs, drifters, prophets, and perverts, Bellona is a city where a young man known only as the Kid - poet, lover, and finally a leader of the volatile "scorpions" - tries to create a life for himself and those around him in a landscape where two moons can suddenly shine through the night clouds or a sun thousands of times larger than any ever seen before may rise - and set - in a day. Dhalgren is a novel that interrogates a range of inchoately American oppositions: black and white, male and female, gay and straight, sane and mad.

Who reads Dhalgren?

Author

Samuel R. Delany; foreward by William Gibson

Publisher

Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press: University Press of New England

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780819562999

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

3.79 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13