University of Wisconsin Press, 2005 eISBN: 978-0-299-21473-9 | Paper: 978-0-299-21474-6 Library of Congress Classification PS3563.A72355T47 2005
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Treacherously comic and poignant, the autobiographical 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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Douglas A. Martin's first novel, Outline of My Lover, was nominated for the American Library Association's GLBT Book Award, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and named an international book of the year in the Times Literary Supplement. It has been adapted in part by the Ballett Frankfurt in the production Kammer/Kammer. The author of two collections of poetry, Martin currently teaches at New School University in New York.
REVIEWS
“Douglas Martin is a polished, inventive, soulful writer, and this collection is a short, sweet, full contemplation of desire and love.”—Mack Friedman, author of Strapped for Cash
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Part One
License
It Takes Me Forever to Get Home
A Model Love
Anonymous Glory
Town
Undated Days
Now I Can't Kiss Anyone for a While
Pyrite
Part Two
Initial Proposition
Trick
What's in Front of Him
Blake's
The Heart of Paris
Part Three
The Island
21, Compositions
An Escort
They Change the Subject
An Attempt
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