Written in poet Michael Klein’s uniquely passionate, unapologetic but humble voice, The End of Being Known explores the lines that define, yet also blur, the boundaries of sex, friendship, and compatibility. This collection of autobiographical essays probes the manifestations of sexual desire in its mystical variety: experiencing incest, falling in love, being a twin, and inhabiting the world of anonymous sex—in practice, and, in an essay about the Body Electric movement, as something recuperative and renewing. Each essay unfurls in a hybrid of poetry, narrative, and fragmentary literary devices. Here is an uncompromising gaze upon the quandaries of those whose sexual, emotional, and relational worlds collide, yielding no answer to the riddle of desire, yet finding meaning by piecing together personal examples of universal themes such as learning, through trial and error, about love and life.

The End of Being Known: A Memoir (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Michael Klein

Arts & Literature

University of Wisconsin Press

Dealing With Public Risk in Private Infrastructure

Timothy Irwin

Matee Thobani

World Bank Publications

The Voice of Free Earth is a novel - a book of stories set in Free Earth, California, a mythical farming community in California's rural San Joaquin Valley. They are the stories of Christopher Beale, something of a chronicle of his boyhood experiences as the son of a larger than life country doctor, Doc Beale. They begin as Doc Beale prepares a ritual end to his life and then, without resolution, the reader is transported back in time and treated to Christopher's world - as his life unfolds in the 1950s and early sixties. Christopher is alone and isolated, emotionally paralyzed by his fear of his father, and mesmerized by the sights and sounds of this place called Free Earth. Told with simple words, they are stories about simple and important things. And they are told in the sometimes sad, sometimes happy, but always solitary voice of Christopher. Christopher Beale is The Voice of Free Earth.

The Voice of Free Earth

Literature & Fiction

One Horse Rhino Press

Handbuch Familienvermögensrecht

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