Gone Tomorrow

Name: Gone Tomorrow
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Gary Indiana
ISBN: 9798350878028

Author: Gary Indiana, Sarah Nicole Prickett

Narrator: Lee Osorio

Unabridged: 8 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/26/2023

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological

Synopsis

Footloose and broke, the unnamed narrator of Gone Tomorrow hops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in a film set in Colombia. But from the moment he arrives at the airport in Bogotá, only to witness a policeman beat a beggar half to death, it becomes clear that this will not be the story of gritty bohemians triumphing against the odds. The director, Paul Grosvenor, seems more interested in manipulating his cast than in shooting film. The cult star, Irma Irma, is a vamp too bored and boring to draw blood. And the beautiful, nymph-like Michael Simard doesn't seem to be putting out. Meanwhile, the film's shady financier is sleeping with his mother, while a serial killer skulks about the area killing tourists. Everything comes to a head when the carnaval celebration begins. But once the fiesta is over, all that's left are ghostly memories and the narrator's insistence on telling the tale. "Unlike the majority of pointedly AIDS-era novels," writes Dennis Cooper, "Gone Tomorrow is neither an amoral nostalgia fest nor a thinly veiled wake-up call hyping the religion of sobriety. It's a philosophical work devised by a writer who's both too intelligent to buy into the notion that a successful future requires the compromise of collective decision and too moral to accept bitterness as the consequence of an adventurous life."

About Gary Indiana

An actor, playwright, artist, poet, critic, and novelist who has chronicled the despair and hysteria of America in the late twentieth century, Gary Indiana was born in 1950 in New Hampshire. From Horse Crazy, a tale of feverish love set against the backdrop of downtown New York amid the AIDS epidemic, to Do Everything in the Dark, "a desolate frieze of New York's aging bohemians" (n+1), Indiana's novels mix horror and bathos, grim social commentary with passages of tenderest, frailest desire. With 1997's Resentment: A Comedy, Indiana began his true crime trilogy, following up with Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story and Depraved Indifference. Together, the three novels show the most vicious crimes in our nation's history to be only American pathologies personified. In 2015, Indiana published his acclaimed anti-memoir, I Can Give You Anything But Love. Called one of "the most brilliant critics writing in America today" by the London Review of Books, "the punk poet and pillar of lower-Manhattan society" by Jamaica Kincaid, and "one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche" by the Guardian, Gary Indiana remains both inimitable and impossible to pin down.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on September 20, 2018

"We arrived in Cartagena. Palms lined the sidewalks, fronds half-brown from dessication. A glass-and-steel cakebox palace, its flag-lined plaza adrool with fountains, floated on the black water of the marina. Human figures crowded the esplanade, which had the look of a perpetual carnival. There were......more

Goodreads review by t on September 02, 2024

drunk book review because why not? this book warrants it. so this is the kind of novel that makes me nostalgic for writing 3k essays for that one AIDS in the 80s/90s module (literally hardly last year nostalgia works weirdly huh) because oh my god ? this book deserves all the stupid hyper critical e......more

Goodreads review by Angus on February 20, 2025

Strange novel about a cast of characters in Columbia filming a movie during the AIDS epidemic in the 80s. Only the second time since Burroughs where I’ve run across the phrase, “anal mucus.”......more

Goodreads review by Chad on August 24, 2022

The best thing I've read all year. Edgy, punk, operatic, perverse (and perversely funny), and teetering on camp, Gary Indiana's Gone Tomorrow is full of stunning writing and brings forth the kind of AIDS-era novel that is unsentimental and doesn't insult the reader's intelligence--something that is......more

Goodreads review by Jim on June 10, 2016

There was a time in the late 80's-early 90's where "transgressive" literature was all the rage. Works like Ellis' American Psycho, Hell's Go Now, and Acker's Blood and Guts in High School tried to outdo themselves with depictions of depravity and degeneration. Gone Tomorrow fits right in with those......more