Research Catalog

Title

The well-dressed wound / Derek McCormack.

Author

McCormack, Derek

Publication

• [South Pasadena, CA] : semiotext(e), [2015]
• [Cambridge, Mass.] ; [London, England] : [Distributed by The MIT Press]
• ©2015

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Details

Description

71 pages; 21 cm

Summary

In the depths of the Civil War, in a theater in P. T. Barnum's American Museum on Broadway, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln participate in a staged spiritualistic rite. But the medium conducting them has invited along another being: the Devil, disguised as twentieth-century French fashionista Martin Margiela (aka "King Faggot"). What follows is the most fiendish runway show ever mounted, complete with war dead, deconstructed couture, and gay ghosts infected with all manner of infectious agents, including oozy AIDS.

Subject

• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Fiction
• Margiela, Martin > Fiction
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Margiela, Martin
• 2000 - 2099
• Canadian literature > 21st century

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Fiction.

Note

• "Set in the depths of the Civil War in P.T. Barnum's American Museum, "The Well-Dressed Wound" is a fashion show by the dead for the living. Invited to attend a staged spiritualistic rite, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln are horrified to find that the medium conducting them has summoned another being: the Devil, disguised as twentieth-century Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela (aka "King Faggot"). What follows is the most fiendish runway show ever mounted, complete with war dead, deconstructed couture, and gay ghosts infected with all manner of infectious agents, including oozy AIDS." -- rear cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 1584351748
• 9781584351740

OCLC

• 907512905
• SCSB-12784210

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library