| Margery Kempe Contributor(s): Gluck, Robert (Author), Toibin, Colm (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1681374315 ISBN-13: 9781681374314 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Lgbt - General - Fiction | Alternative History - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2019039532 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.9" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 woman and Jesus Christ. First published in 1994, Robert Gl ck's Margery Kempe is one of the most provocative, poignant, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One, based on the first autobiography in English, the medieval Book of Margery Kempe, is about a fifteenth-century woman from East Anglia, a visionary, a troublemaker, a pilgrim to the Holy Land, and an aspiring saint, and her love affair with Jesus. It is complicated. The other is about the author's own love for an alluring and elusive young American, L. It is complicated. Between these two Margery Kempe, the novel, emerges as an unprecedented exploration of desire, devotion, abjection, and sexual obsession in the form of a novel like no other novel. Robert Gl ck's masterpiece bears comparison with the finest work of such writers as Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. This edition includes an essay by Gl ck about the creation of the book titled My Margery, Margery's Bob. |