Time Remaining"Well, it just sings." Susan Sontag "'Drugs, dick, disco, and dish remember?' That's how the drag queen Miss Mae Mae describes the good times in James McCourt's 1993 novel, Time Remaining. She is on her deathbed, clutching a stuffed bear, and she marvels at how suddenly those words have been replaced by 'dysentery, dementia, despair, and death.' Miss Mae Mae's final quip is relayed by Odette O'Doyle, a 'polymath drag queen diva, ' to Daniel Delancey,

where he’s risen to assistant manager of produce

and Charlie thinks he's ready to say those three little words: I love you

regardless of their ethnic and racial background

But as they attempt to recover the “merchandise”

But there's no such thing as a free lunch…

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1338617566

this astonishing and compassionate narrative offers insight and hope in equal measure

the male nude has not always enjoyed such attention

20% polyester

The novel culminates in universal disaster—it is “death which is life's last black station

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250882834

Why go through the stress of making friends when you can just pretend