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Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus Christ.
Margery Kempe is a tale of romantic obsession. It chronicles two relationships which take place in disparate worlds, separated by five centuries. The failed saint Margery Kempe lived in the fifteenth century, when she wrote what is believed to be the first autobiography. In Robert Glück's Margery Kempe, the author's love for a young man, L., frames the story of Kempe's mythical sexual desire and emotional passion for Jesus.
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Robert Glück is a poet, fiction writer, and editor. He founded the New Narrative movement in San Francisco with Bruce Boone and other writers. His poetry collections include Reader and La Fontaine, a collaboration with Boone. His fiction includes the short story collection Denny Smith and the novels Jack the Modernist and Margery Kempe. He has served as the director of San Francisco State's Poetry Center, co-directer of the Small Press Traffic Literary Center, and as editor for Lapis Press and Narrativity. He lives in San Francisco.
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- PublisherNYRB Classics
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1681374315
- ISBN 13 9781681374314
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- Number of pages192
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