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They
Change The Subject
Douglas A. Martin
Terrace Books
Passionate encounters unfold like bits of film
Treacherously comic and poignant, the 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.
"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
"Poet and novelist Martin is the literary equivalent
of Morrissey—only he's not afraid to tell you what he wants."—Village
Voice, praise for Outline of My Lover
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 for the production Kammer/Kammer.
The author of two collections of poetry, Martin currently teaches
at New School University in New York.
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September 2005
LC: 2005008264 PS
160 pp. 6 x 9
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