Intimacy: A Novel - Softcover

Crawford, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157366054X ISBN 13: 9781573660549

Verlag: Fiction Collective Two, 2016

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"Stanley Crawford is one of our great, uncompromising prose writers and he has outdone himself here. Heartbreaking and profound, Intimacy is the most beautifully written novel I've read in years." --Robert Kloss, author of How the Days of Love and Diptheria and Alligators of Abraham "I have loved Stanley Crawford's novels since I first discovered them two decades ago. Intimacy is a meticulous, beautiful, and moving addition to his amazing body of work." --Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody, Big Ray: A Novel, and Us "This book requires readers to take their time. Some of the writing may a bit ponderous, but it is a worthwhile experience getting inside this man's head." --The Taos News

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In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person. Intimacy follows an unnamed narrator planning his own death. His preparations become a trigger and occasion for him to revisit key moments in his life and his material possessions, which are the solid artifacts from his life's journey. As sparrows in flight might form a single arrow, the life of the narrator comes into focus as a collage of fleeting events and images. Readers gain insights into tiny moments that slowly build into a picture of a man who seems to have very little, aside from material possessions, to lose. The narrative pulls the reader along a trail of digressions-about running shoes, about the symbolism of rings-that lead down a proverbial rabbit hole until we realize the narrator's intentions. Despite our lack of concrete knowledge about the narrator's life, he allows us to share his thought processes: how every thought leads to the next, how memories seep upward when he picks up a particular T-shirt, or when he glimpses his car keys. And alongside our growing understanding of the narrator comes a recognition of our own thought processes: how we, like him, relate to our bodies; how we, too, cannot break away from the constant motion of our thoughts. Intimacy is a brief, intense novel charged with the heightened sense of closeness that comes from watching a man's last hours. It illuminates how brief snapshots of memory can trace the outline of an entire life.

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• Verlag: Fiction Collective Two
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 157366054X
• ISBN 13: 9781573660549
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128