As a Friend
Forrest Gander
(Author)
Description
"Heroism is a secondary virtue," Albert Camus noted, "but friendship is primary." In his gem-like first novel, Forrest Gander writes of friendship, envy, and eros as a harmonic of charged overtones. Set in a rural southern landscape as vivid as its indelible characters, As a Friend tells the story of Les, a gifted man and land surveyor, whose impact on those around him (his friend Clay, his girlfriend Sarah) provokes intense self-examination and an atmosphere of dangerous eroticism. With poetic insight, Gander explores the nature of attraction, betrayal, and loyalty. What he achieves is brilliant in style and powerfully unsettling.
Product Details
Price
$14.95
$13.90
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
September 01, 2008
Pages
106
Dimensions
4.28 X 0.3 X 7.28 inches | 0.21 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811217453
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Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in California. He taught at Harvard University and Brown University. Gander is a translator and the author of many books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received a Pulitzer Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Whiting, and United States Artists Foundations.
Reviews
Its length is an asset...lending the book the same mercurial qualities as its ostensible subject, the doomed, magnetic Les.--Joyelle McSweeney
In this strange and beautiful novel as in life, love is part of what is sacred.--Jeanette Winterson
An adoring friendship turns deadly in poet and translator Gander's visceral if too brief first novel.
In this strange and beautiful novel as in life, love is part of what is sacred.--Jeanette Winterson
An adoring friendship turns deadly in poet and translator Gander's visceral if too brief first novel.