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Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir
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ISBN13: 9781771669498
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Published: Sep 30 2025
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Is a song enough
to hold all the truths we cannot bear
without it?
From award-winning writer Michael V. Smith comes a poetic memoir about growing up gay in the shadow of AIDS. Embodying an elusive part of queer history, these song and album-inspired pieces capture the last three decades of the millennium and reveal how music has an uncanny ability to remind us not just where we were at a given moment in time but who we were.
With his signature humour and tenderness, and guided by the music of the era, Smith catalogues social prejudices, court rulings, and medical breakthroughs, alongside personal devastations, triumphs, and the search for community. From a first crush toting a Michael Jackson Thriller cassette, to falling in love to the music of Jane Siberry, to dancing at a gay bar to Groove Is in the Heart, Soundtrack is a moving personal record of a man who survived the lost generation and a vital document of queer joy.
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