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The sleep-over artist / Thomas Beller.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.E53364 S55 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beller, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture producers and directors--Fiction.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- 299 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2000.
- Summary:
- Writing with the sparkling wit and insight of his highly praised debut, Seduction Theory, Thomas Beller continues to plumb the adventures of his hero, Alex Fader, a youthful existentialist and sensualist with an insatiable appetite for trouble.
- The Sleep-Over Artist is an account of critical stages in Alex's life, mapping his progress from youthful delinquent to filmmaker whose career begins when he makes a documentary film exposing the prep school from which he has been expelled. Alex longs for the taste of family life that the early death of his father has denied him. As a young boy he sleeps over at his friends' houses and ingratiates himself with their families; as a young man he extends his sleep-overs to the lives of women, culminating in the ultimate sleep-over -- an affair in England with a glamorous, slightly older woman, the mother of a young boy. As he presses his nose against the glass of seductive affluence and seemingly seamless familial congeniality, Alex devises strategies to claim this world for his own.
- Beller has a pitch-perfect ear for emotional nuance and a microscopic eye for rendering the wordless moments when a relationship catches fire and all too often begins to falter. The high-wire tension that electrifies The Sleepover Artist is Beller's ingenious portrait of a young man who longs to disappear and belong at the same time.
- Contents:
- Falling Water 13
- Natural Selection 17
- Great Jews in Sports 40
- The Harmonie Club 63
- What Ever Happened to the Yippies? 72
- Stay (On Falling Asleep in the Company of Another Person) 88
- Vas Is Dat? 95
- Say It with Furs 142
- Personal Style 161
- Caller ID 179
- Seconds of Pleasure 191
- New Windows 279.
- ISBN:
- 0393049256
- OCLC:
- 43555299
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