My House Gathers Desires: American Readers Series
Autor Adam McOmberen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2017
Adam McOmber's lush, hallucinatory stories are both familiar and wholly original. Drawn from the historical record, Biblical lore, fairy tales, science fiction, and nightmares, these offbeat and fantastical works explore gender and sexuality in their darkest and most beautiful manifestations. In the tradition of Angela Carter or Kelly Link, My House Gathers Desires is covertly funny and haunting, seeking fresh ways to consider sexual identity and its relation to history.
In "Sodom and Gomorrah," readers encounter a subversive, ecstatic new version of the Old Testament story. In "The Re'em," a medieval monk's search for a mythic beast conjures forbidden desire. And in "Notes on Inversion," the German psychiatrist Kraft-Ebbing receives a surreal retort to his clinical descriptions of same-sex desire.
From "Sodom and Gomorrah":
The strangers then are no longer like two men at all. They have undressed themselves, giving up the pretense of skin and becoming a denser part of the air. We are hungry for them. Ours is a sacred desire that was buried too long in our chests, like some city beneath the sand.
Adam McOmber is the author of The White Forest (Touchstone, 2012) and This New & Poisonous Air (BOA, 2011), from which he had stories nominated for two 2012 Pushcart Prizes. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, and Fairy Tale Review. He served as the managing and associate editor of Hotel America at Columbia College Chicago from 2007-2015. He now lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he teaches at Loyola Marymount University.
In "Sodom and Gomorrah," readers encounter a subversive, ecstatic new version of the Old Testament story. In "The Re'em," a medieval monk's search for a mythic beast conjures forbidden desire. And in "Notes on Inversion," the German psychiatrist Kraft-Ebbing receives a surreal retort to his clinical descriptions of same-sex desire.
From "Sodom and Gomorrah":
The strangers then are no longer like two men at all. They have undressed themselves, giving up the pretense of skin and becoming a denser part of the air. We are hungry for them. Ours is a sacred desire that was buried too long in our chests, like some city beneath the sand.
Adam McOmber is the author of The White Forest (Touchstone, 2012) and This New & Poisonous Air (BOA, 2011), from which he had stories nominated for two 2012 Pushcart Prizes. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, and Fairy Tale Review. He served as the managing and associate editor of Hotel America at Columbia College Chicago from 2007-2015. He now lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he teaches at Loyola Marymount University.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781942683414
ISBN-10: 1942683413
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: BOA Editions Ltd.
Colecția BOA Editions Ltd.
Seria American Readers Series
ISBN-10: 1942683413
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: BOA Editions Ltd.
Colecția BOA Editions Ltd.
Seria American Readers Series
Notă biografică
Adam McOmber is the author of The White Forest (Touchstone, 2012) and This New & Poisonous Air (BOA Editions, 2011), from which he had stories nominated for two 2012 Pushcart Prizes. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, and Fairy Tale Review. He served as the managing and associate editor of the literary magazine Hotel America at Columbia College Chicago from 2007-2015. He now lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he teaches at Loyola Marymount University.
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CONTENTS
Hydrophobia
Petit Trianon
Sodom and Gomorrah
Poet and Underworld
Swaingrove
Versailles, 1623
The Rite of Spring
Homunculus
The Coil
Sleep and Death
Night is Nearly Done
The Re¿em
Metempsychosis
History of a Saint
Notes on Inversion
Hydrophobia
Petit Trianon
Sodom and Gomorrah
Poet and Underworld
Swaingrove
Versailles, 1623
The Rite of Spring
Homunculus
The Coil
Sleep and Death
Night is Nearly Done
The Re¿em
Metempsychosis
History of a Saint
Notes on Inversion
Descriere
New Wave Fabulist stories combine artifice, desire, and the uncanny as a way to challenge our notions of modern life.