At Your Own Risk : A Saint's Testament (9780099222910)

Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality.

In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and sixties makes way for liberation and free love in the seventies, only to be chased by the terror and pain of HIV/AIDS. This is Jarman at his passionate best, written when he was already ill with HIV and in the midst of the moral panic surrounding the AIDS crisis. Defiant and furious, he not only celebrates his own sexuality but skewers wider society for its brazen homophobia.

Reissued here 25 years after Jarman's death, with an introduction by Straight Jacket author Matthew Todd, At Your Own Risk remains a singular work. It is a powerful reminder of how far we have come and how much further we have left to go.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 176 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 12mm | 145g
• Publication date 27 Mar 1994
• Publisher Vintage Publishing
• Imprint Vintage Classics
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 16pp b&w photographs
• ISBN10 0099222914
• ISBN13 9780099222910
• Bestsellers rank 18,353

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