Consent: A Novel - Hardcover
Mike Zabusky first sees Katherine Staresina at a party given by Mike’s doctoral-thesis adviser, Matthew Weingarden. They are instantly drawn to each other--so instantly that they have a sexual collision against a bathroom wall less than two hours after they meet.
Mike immediately feels surer of his love for Katherine than of anything else in his life--his moribund thesis about the Golem (an artificial creature in Jewish folklore); Weingarden, who appears to simultaneously support and undermine Mike’s studies; and his lonely, angry stock-trading father, soon to commit suicide and thus further entangle the emotional knot, first tied in childhood, that Mike must try to untie.
While Katherine begins a mystifying game of intimacy and rejection, Mike learns more about her troubled past and seems to lose ground with every effort to win her heart. Finally he comes face-to-face with his own Golem-like existence. Who is controlling him? What can he do to escape-and determine-his own fate? What is the truth behind his father’s death?
Consent paints a poignant, surprising, and ultimately profound portrait of a young man facing the universal challenge of balancing passion with wisdom.
Mike immediately feels surer of his love for Katherine than of anything else in his life--his moribund thesis about the Golem (an artificial creature in Jewish folklore); Weingarden, who appears to simultaneously support and undermine Mike’s studies; and his lonely, angry stock-trading father, soon to commit suicide and thus further entangle the emotional knot, first tied in childhood, that Mike must try to untie.
While Katherine begins a mystifying game of intimacy and rejection, Mike learns more about her troubled past and seems to lose ground with every effort to win her heart. Finally he comes face-to-face with his own Golem-like existence. Who is controlling him? What can he do to escape-and determine-his own fate? What is the truth behind his father’s death?
Consent paints a poignant, surprising, and ultimately profound portrait of a young man facing the universal challenge of balancing passion with wisdom.
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Praise for Consent
“Consent is a novel of sly, taut power, full of the hauntings of love and sex and family and folklore. Ben Schrank’s prose never flinches, and he’s not afraid to let his heart break.”
—Sam Lipsyte, author of The Subject Steve and Venus Drive
“Consent is a fierce examination of a young man’s heart—how it loves, how it grieves, how it tries to figure everything out. And it’s this last element--this desire to unravel, to understand—that makes this book almost like a mystery, an emotional whodunit, which is served well by Ben Schrank’s clean, hard-boiled prose.”
—Jonathan Ames, author of I Pass Like Night and The Extra Man
“Ben Schrank’s novel Consent makes you wonder how a man can write so well about a woman. The story, which deals with lovers and memory and money, also touches on the relation of myth and plain reality. It is a very serious story, and, in places, it is hilarious. As for the woman at the center, she is unforgettable.”
—Leonard Michaels, author of A Girl with a Monkey
Praise for Miracle Man
“Schrank makes New York seem sharp and new.”
—The New Yorker
“A brilliantly observed story . . . imbued with streetwise passion.”
—Time
“[An] impressive first novel [about] . . . an appealingly reticent rogue.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“What’s most refreshing about Schrank: He infuses his main character with pure, unbridled longing, which few writers in this aloof age allow themselves to do.”
—Detour
“Endearing and original . . . Schrank is wonderfully unafraid to reveal the longing, wonder, and confusion of a young man in pursuit of family and the hope of doing good in a city that refuses kindness.”
—Paper
From the Inside Flap:
“Consent is a novel of sly, taut power, full of the hauntings of love and sex and family and folklore. Ben Schrank’s prose never flinches, and he’s not afraid to let his heart break.”
—Sam Lipsyte, author of The Subject Steve and Venus Drive
“Consent is a fierce examination of a young man’s heart—how it loves, how it grieves, how it tries to figure everything out. And it’s this last element--this desire to unravel, to understand—that makes this book almost like a mystery, an emotional whodunit, which is served well by Ben Schrank’s clean, hard-boiled prose.”
—Jonathan Ames, author of I Pass Like Night and The Extra Man
“Ben Schrank’s novel Consent makes you wonder how a man can write so well about a woman. The story, which deals with lovers and memory and money, also touches on the relation of myth and plain reality. It is a very serious story, and, in places, it is hilarious. As for the woman at the center, she is unforgettable.”
—Leonard Michaels, author of A Girl with a Monkey
Praise for Miracle Man
“Schrank makes New York seem sharp and new.”
—The New Yorker
“A brilliantly observed story . . . imbued with streetwise passion.”
—Time
“[An] impressive first novel [about] . . . an appealingly reticent rogue.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“What’s most refreshing about Schrank: He infuses his main character with pure, unbridled longing, which few writers in this aloof age allow themselves to do.”
—Detour
“Endearing and original . . . Schrank is wonderfully unafraid to reveal the longing, wonder, and confusion of a young man in pursuit of family and the hope of doing good in a city that refuses kindness.”
—Paper
first sees Katherine Staresina at a party, and they are instantly drawn to each other—so instantly that they have a sexual collision against a bathroom wall less than two hours after they meet. Mike immediately feels surer of his love for Katherine than of anything else in his life. A mystifying game of intimacy and rejection ensues, and Mike is caught up in Katherine’s troubled past and his own struggles with autonomy in this intense, incisive novel.
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- PublisherRandom House
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0375507078
- ISBN 13 9780375507076
- BindingHardcover
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