AMERICAN STUDIES: A Masterful LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction Story of Secrets and Social Commentary - Softcover
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Reeve thinks his life is over. His career is at a dead end, his face is a mess, and his landlord is evicting him from his apartment because he made too much noise when a hustler beat him up. As he lies in his hospital bed, figuring our what to do next, he finds himself brooding about the parallel ruin of his old college mentor Tom Slater, a famous American literary scholar who was betrayed and driven to suicide during the McCarthy era.
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Mark Merlis grew up in Baltimore and attended Wesleyan and Brown Universities. He now works at the Library of Congress in Washington. His first novel, AMERICAN STUDIES won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Mark Merlis exceptional first novel. Dark humour, biting wit and dazzling prose infuse this story of desire and betrayal, history and healing.Reeve thinks his life is over. His career is at a dead end, his face is a mess, and his landlord is evicting him from his aprartment because he made too much noise when a hustler beat him up. As he lies in his hospital bed, figuring our what to do next. he finds himself brooding about the parallel ruin of his old college mentor Tom Slater, a famous American literary scholar who was betrayed and driven to suicide during the McCarthy era.Offering a welcome distraction is the patient in the next bed, a slient youth who arouses feelings Reeve vowed he would renounce, the dangerous longing for the sweetness and menace of straight men.Never at a loss for the tellling of caustic aside, Reeve reconstructs the troubled worlds of Tom Slater and his own insouciant youth, and horny old age. American Studies is an ambitiously achieved sweep of twentieth-century experience, a novel which triumphantly succeeds as both tragedy and farce. Mark Merlis exceptional first novel. Dark humour, biting wit and dazzling prose infuse this story of desire and betrayal, history and healing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780007292202
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