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Zwarte komedie over het leven van een groepje New Yorkers die zich met homoseksuele uitspattingen, het grootscheeps verspillen van geld of met religieuze bevliegingen onledig houden.

"A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity"--. A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship falls overboard; adrift, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter of the impossible,"...

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Satirizing life in New York City in the 1980s, its themes include the scourge of AIDS, criminal conspiracies, the excesses of the superrich, modern evangelism, and love in its many forms.

Ginsberg's 1956 collection of poems created a sensation, becoming the subject of an obscenity trial and changing the literary landscape forever.