A Place in the Sun - Softcover

Warsh, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193313271X ISBN 13: 9781933132716

Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Poet and novelist Warsh (A Free Man) braids together multiple perspectives with a surgeon's dexterity throughout six brilliantly deconstructed, high action stories. In the opener, "The Russians," Warsh's razor sharp attention to detail creates a startling sense of intimacy with the characters: Irene is brutally raped and murdered while her friend Marina is bound to a chair. Portraits of the women as lovers in Russia emerge in tandem with the conflicted erotic relationship that develops between Marina and the detective who rescues her. Another highlight is the titular story, "A Place in the Sun," which brings iconic figures of Hollywood's golden years into stark contrast with their respective legends. Elizabeth Taylor falls in love with Monty Clift when they star together in the film of the title. Despite his drug addiction, Monty takes his profession very seriously while Liz's naïve vanity will not allow her to fathom that any man could reject her, or that Monty could be interested in others-men included. Warsh's sense of immediacy adds power to a book in which the storylines and the clean precise prose are equally riveting.
Publishers Weekly

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About the Author

Lewis Warsh is the author of over thirty volumes of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including Out of the Question: Selected Poems 1963-2003 (Station Hill, 2017), One Foot Out the Door: Collected Stories (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014), A Place in the Sun (Spuyten Duyvil, 2010) and Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary Books, 2008). He was co-founder, with Bernadette Mayer, of United Artists Magazine and Books. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council of the Arts, The Poet's Foundation and The Fund for Poetry. Mimeo Mimeo #7 (2012) was devoted to his poetry, fiction and collages, and to a bibliography of his work as a writer and publisher. He has taught at Naropa University, The Poetry Project, SUNY Albany, Bowery Poetry and Long Island University, where he was director of the MFA program in creative writing from 2007-2013 and where he currently teaches.

Edition details

• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193313271X
• ISBN 13: 9781933132716
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Lawton Pamela
• Number of pages: 234