Outline of My Lover
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (500 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1887128476 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 165 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Part love story, part indictment, the debut novel Outline of My Lover traces our society's damaging obsession with celebrity.
A Customer said Sophomoric Diary Disguised as a Novel. I just wasted "Sophomoric Diary Disguised as a Novel" according to A Customer. I just wasted 2 hours reading this book. This is not a novel at all, but a multipage, somewhat clinical "account" of the author's true-life sexual relationship with Michael Stipe, the lead singer of the band REM. More inportantly, it is terribly boring and self-pitying, and contains no imagination or interpretation or analysis. Basically, the writer goes to Athens after being obssessed with Michael Stipe. He finds out where Michael Stipe lives, and what bars Michael Stipe frequents, and the author tries to place himself in the star's path. He successfully seduce. hours reading this book. This is not a novel at all, but a multipage, somewhat clinical "account" of the author's true-life sexual relationship with Michael Stipe, the lead singer of the band REM. More inportantly, it is terribly boring and self-pitying, and contains no imagination or interpretation or analysis. Basically, the writer goes to Athens after being obssessed with Michael Stipe. He finds out where Michael Stipe lives, and what bars Michael Stipe frequents, and the author tries to place himself in the star's path. He successfully seduce. Someone Hasn't Been Doing Their Homework! How this book is classified is obviously erroneous. There is an emotional veracity that makes it well worth spending the time absorbing its examination rather than flipping through it looking for names. If this is a diary, it is one written with a complicated command of perspective and that the narrator began as a child and managed to keep before he has even gone off to school, as the first forty-four pages dealing almost exclusively with the terrain of early childhood, roughly an entire third of the page count, attest.Ridiculous as it may seem, the narrator goe. Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod, author of the Seven Day Manuscript Machine and Writing the Bible for Kids said Fragile Porcelain Novel. This is a lovely book to hold; it's tiny, compact, with a well-designed cover -- things that made a big difference to my initial perception of it. The content of "Outline of my Lover", however, is not so much a novel as a collection of more-or-less plotless but poetic ruminations that are enjoyable in the way they are conjoined and juxtaposed. I was expecting a little more of a story, but what conventional plotting does take place in this novel is handled so delicately that it is barely perceptible. Nevertheless, Martin's reflections on stardom are important obs
-- The Stranger, August 31, 2000billed as a novel but speaks with the captivating sincerity of fact. -- SF Gate, August 2, 2000Martin is adept at mixing genres, and Outline of My Lover sets the tension between fiction and poetry while not getting caught in a debate about form. -- OC Weekly, July 21, 2000an uncompromising edge.enacts the intense conflict between the power of language and the urge to form and control. a thoughtful book that contemplates passion, celebrity, authority, and identity and sucessfully emerges as both an original and enjoyable work. -- Rain Taxi review of books, Summer 2000able to capture the paranoia and insecurity of childhood and growing up gay and project it believably into an adult character. -- Instinct magazine, June 2000poetic in places. -- Times Literary Supplement, December 1, 2000beautiful gems of cerebral longing, and Martin's disregard for commas makes