American Studies
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.39 (910 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0395689929 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 275 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Meet Reeve who thinks his life is over: his career is at an end and his landlord is evicting him because he made too much noise when a hustler beat him up. There is the further distraction of the patient in the next bed, a silent youth who arouses the desire in Reeve for straight men.. As he lies in his hospital bed, he finds himself brooding about the parallel ruin of his mentor Tom Slater, a famous American literary scholar. Infused with desire, betrayal, and healing, Mark Merils writes with dark humor of gay life in this century
Tom said The Struggle for a Good Life in a Hostile World. Author Mark Merlis is a writer of rare talents. The structure of his novel allows the reader to follow two stories, one from the McCarthy era and one from 1989. He makes it clear that gay identity has a temporal quality. I recommend this book highly.. Among the best of all gay novels Rick Whitaker American Studies, very sadly out of print at the moment (but surely not for long), is one of the great gay novels of the 20th century. Narrated by a gay man in hospital after being beaten by a trick, the novel tells the story of F.O. Matthiessen, a great American literary critic who committed suicide in 1950 after being outed and ostracized at Harvard, where he taught for more than twenty years. Most importantly, though, Merlis writes like an angel, every sentence beautifully made, charming, amusing, and moving. It is as perfect as. A Solid & Satisfying Read on Every Level Owen Keehnen American Studies is a boldly crafted debut novel about gay generational changes and connections, betrayal and loyalty, moving ahead, and individual identity. The novel revolves around the theme of healing on several levels. Reeve is 62 and hospitalized after a severe beating by a hustler. He feels his sex life, his dignity, and everything he held sacred - those very things which defined him - are all gone. Over the four day span of this novel, Reeve gradually regains his footing, adapts, and rebuilds his life. Most importantly he r
"He was so much a ghost that I couldn't touch him," Reeve says of Slater, who ultimately remains as much of an enigma as Matthiessen himself. From Publishers Weekly Handsome prose and the erotic undercurrent of pre-Stonewall gay life strengthen this intriguing first novel. Slater, known both for his seminar on American studies and (among the cognoscenti) for his closeted lifestyle, was both a homosexual and a member of the Communist Party. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. In fact, the work relies heavily on supposition: Slater's life and downfall is reconstructed as Reeve imagines it to have happened. O. . While recuperating from a hustler's brutal beating, Reeve, a 62-year-old gay man, finds his attention split between lustful thoughts for his young, straight hospital roommate and memories of his college professor and mentor, Tom Slater (a character based on critic, author and Harvard professor F. Though this method reveals Merlis'