Circus - or, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes: A Novel (Paperback)

"If Debussy and Robert Walser had collaborated on an opera, it would sound like this."-John Ashbery "The mad genius of Pale Fire with the florid outlaw sexuality of Jean Genet"-Kirkus Reviews For five years, concert pianist Theo Mangrove has been living at his family's home in East Kill, New York, recovering from a nervous breakdown that derailed his career, and attempting to relieve his relentless polysexual appetite in the company of male hustlers, random strangers, music students, his aunt, and occasionally his wife. As he prepares for a comeback recital in Aigues-Mortes, a walled medieval town in southern France, he becomes obsessed with the idea that the Italian circus star Moira Orfei must join him there to perform alongside him. Extravagantly (and tragicomically) describing his hallucinatory plans in a series of twenty-five notebooks, he assembles an incantatory meditation on performance, failure, fame, decay, and delusion. A new edition of a "dazzlingly seductive" fever dream written in "brilliant poetic vernacular" (Bookforum) by a beloved poet and cultural critic, now with an introduction by Rachel Kushner.

General

Imprint:	Soft Skull Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2019
Authors:	Wayne Koestenbaum • Rachel Kushner
Dimensions:	209 x 139 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-59376-486-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-59376-486-3
Barcode:	9781593764869

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