I Am Not Myself These DaysAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 7 February 2006
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A glittering, bittersweet vision of an outsider who turned himself into the life and soul of the party. Kilmer-Purcells 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 tearsand there are tears to be shed along this extraordinary journeyare 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 ofTales of the City
The New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoir of a young New Yorker's daring dual lifeadvertising art director by day, glitter-dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty-pageant hopeful by nightwas a smash literary debut for Josh Kilmer-Purcell, now known for his popular Planet Green television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. His story begins herebefore the homemade goat milk soaps and hand-gathered honeys, before his memoir of the city mouses move to the country, The Bucolic Plaguein I Am Not Myself These Days, with plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight (Washington Post).
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