Secret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)

By Tobias Schneebaum

Book Overview

In the swamps of Asmat in West New Guinea, Tobias Schneebaum--traveler, writer, painter, explorer--finds the way of life that suits him best. Secret Places reels readers into a world of storytellers and sorcerers, cannibals and carvers, a place where Schneebaum discovers his soulmates and his own soul.

Looking back at a life of wild adventure, Schneebaum seeks in Secret Places to intertwine the varied strands of his experience, pondering the parallel universes of his experience as a gay Jewish New Yorker and his years among the Asmat. The result illuminates both worlds--as when he juxtaposes the Asmat celebration of the spirits of the dead with a New York City plagued by AIDS and its own sad spirits.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299169901
• ISBN13: 9780299169909
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"