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Wolf (Paperback)
Douglas A. Martin
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R316
Discovery Miles 3 160
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Begun as a response to a front page photograph illustrating a
tragedy that the media quickly sensationalized in the early 2000's,
Wolf tells the composite truth of two brothers, a family friend, a
father, and a murder. Skeptical of news cycles and the way trials
become page-turners, this book forgoes the standards of true crime:
quick conclusions and moralistic underpinnings. Instead, motivated
by an attempt to extend empathy, its reconstruction unfolds in
tones of witness and meditation. What results is a story about the
extremities to which deeply unchecked abuse and ongoing trauma can
push a family.
This is a semi-autobiograpical novel about growing up in a strained
working-class household transplanted to the South. Martin carefully
brings out the curiosity of children on the verge of becoming
sexual and their confusion in the midst of family violence.
Culturing Writing. Art. In YOUR BODY FIGURED, Douglas A. Martin
presents the reader with three prose pieces, each focused on an
artist: the painter Balthus, the poet Hart Crane, and finally the
Irish painter Francis Bacon as seen through his relationship with
model and muse, George Dyer. Each section is a meditation on the
relationship between art and life, artist and model, subject and
object--evidence of the troubled landscape at the core of human
desire and creative production. Martin reaches out to the reader
through his near-incantatory use of the second person
point-of-view, so that one constantly feels called upon to respond,
to return to the text. Evoking a myriad of twentieth century
writers--Kathy Acker, Marguerite Duras, Andre Gide, among
others--Martin's work breaks from perceived form to create a
trilogy of serial narratives that bring the life of the modern
artist up against the limits of the body and language. Douglas A.
Martin is the author of two novels (Branwell, Outline of My Lover),
a book of stories (They Change the Subject), a collection of poetry
(In the Time of Assignments) and a coauthor of a book of haiku. He
lives in Brooklyn.
This book lets passionate encounters unfold like bits of film.
Treacherously comic and poignant, the stories in ""They Change the
Subject"" follow a young man's quest for identity through love and
desire. Sustained by a single voice, the stories simultaneously
offer a fractured novel and stand, powerfully, on their own. At the
center of each tale is the heightened, visceral possibility of
unexpected emotional encounters - from an escort's dates in
Manhattan hotels to a photo shoot that doubles as seduction. Always
pushing toward a bigger shiver of passion, Martin's
young-man-on-the-make learns how to adapt his persona to suit his
lovers' needs and tries to embrace his own experience - and his
self - by becoming the purest object of desire.
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