Margery Kempe by Gluck, Robert

Margery Kempe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781681374314)

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Margery Kempe by Gluck, Robert

Margery Kempe

$16.95
Margery Kempe by Gluck, Robert

Margery Kempe

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century woman and Jesus Christ.

First published in 1994, Robert Gl?k's Margery Kempe is one of the most provocative, poignant, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One, based on the first autobiography in English, the medieval Book of Margery Kempe, is about a fifteenth-century woman from East Anglia, a visionary, a troublemaker, a pilgrim to the Holy Land, and an aspiring saint, and her love affair with Jesus. It is complicated. The other is about the author's own love for an alluring and elusive young American, L. It is complicated. Between these two Margery Kempe, the novel, emerges as an unprecedented exploration of desire, devotion, abjection, and sexual obsession in the form of a novel like no other novel. Robert Gl?k's masterpiece bears comparison with the finest work of such writers as Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. This edition includes an essay by Gl?k about the creation of the book titled "My Margery, Margery's Bob."

Author: Robert Gluck
ISBN-10: 1681374315
ISBN-13: 9781681374314
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2020
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d
By Robert Gluck
By Robert Gluck
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Robert Glück is a poet, fiction writer, critic, and editor. With Bruce Boone, he founded the New Narrative movement in San Francisco. His poetry collections include Reader and, with Boone, La Fontaine. His fiction includes the story collection Denny Smith, and the novel Jack the Modernist. Glück edited, with Camille Roy, Mary Berger, and Gail Scott, the anthology Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative, and his collected essays, Communal Nude, appeared in 2016. Glück served as the director of San Francisco State's Poetry Center, co-director of the Small Press Traffic Literary Center, and associate editor at Lapis Press. He lives in San Francisco.

Colm Tóibín is Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. His latest book is Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce.

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