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The Heart Is Meat: An 80s Memoir

Name: The Heart Is Meat: An 80s Memoir
Brand: Oil on Water Press
SKU: 9781915316332
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Contributors:

Michael Backus

Publisher:

Oil on Water Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Memoirs, Popular Culture

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Release Date:

2025-06-01

ISBN 13:

9781915316332

Weight:

0.44 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.50 x 0.46 inches

Pages:

182

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In the early 80s, New York City's Gansevoort Meatpacking District, a small irregular patch of the West Village, was a wild confluence of meat market workers, gay men hitting The Mineshaft or The Anvil, trans prostitutes, homeless huddled around burn barrels, New Jersey mafiosos, veterans of three wars, heroes of the French Resistance, and Holocaust survivors. Michael Backus was newly arrived to the city when he began working at Adolf Kusy Meats in 1982, a young man fresh out of college who had never imagined himself in any city, much less New York. But he was going to be a fiction writer and while ignorant of what that might actually entail, understood that writers lived in New York.

Into the mix came his college sweetheart Maya, seduced, like Michael, by the glamour and excitement of the East Village, its fashion model roommates, conceptual art openings, dance clubs, and junkies lined up outside bombed out buildings. Their intensity would lead only to ruin.

About the Author
Backus, Michael: - Michael Backus is the author of the novel The Vanishing Point and the memoir The Heart is Meat: An 80s Memoir. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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