S & M - Softcover

DeShell, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573660248 ISBN 13: 9781573660242

Publisher: Fiction Collective 2, 1997

Synopsis

An elegant exploration of language, passion, imagination and betrayal, Jeffrey DeShell's second novel is a nocturnal meditation on sexual politics and sexual exigency. Full of lyricism and wit, S&M relentlessly questions the roles language and imagination play in the construction of sexual and emotional desire. S&M presents characters driven by the lustful pursuit of any loving other who might turn out to be more flattering image of themselves. Through them, we suffer a knowledge of our own shallowness which is at once comical and devastating. Despite its own deceptively shiny surface, this is a book with depth and resonance, with something important to say about the possibilities of becoming a self that you can live with and let live. Stylish and stylized, DeShell's S&M is a novel for people who can still feel a frission from reading novels.

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Review

"...a fluid plot shaped by a narrative voice both elegant and playful" -- Chris Mazza, author of Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?

"...a well-known territory: the place where we obsess over relationships." -- Stacey Levine, author of My Horse

"...an enormously entertaining story about sex and loss and the quixotic self-deceiving pursuit of love." -- Jonathan Baumbach, author of Babble

Edition details

• Publisher: Fiction Collective 2
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573660248
• ISBN 13: 9781573660242
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228