Drawing on documents and images from real-life pioneers, the hugely ambitious Blackouts is an intimate, playful account of an old and a young man talking; but it builds into a rich, poetic reclamation of cultural inheritance -- What to read this autumn: 2023s biggest new books The Guardian Blackouts is a palimpsestic and vauntingly ambitious novel... Sunday Telegraph A poetic, affecting novel written with intelligence and warmth I Paper If you locked Shirley Jackson and David Wojnarowicz in a room together, they might invent the kind of mouldering dreamworld that Justin Torres conjures in Blackouts: a queer-gothic version of the Hotel California... Blackouts is both a tale and a product of queer inheritance. It is a book that honours its ghosts...
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