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As a friend / by Forrest Gander.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.A47 A9 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gander, Forrest, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 106 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Pub., [2008]
- Summary:
- 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. "
- Notes:
- "A New Directions paperbook original (NDP1104)"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780811217453
- 0811217450
- OCLC:
- 227016096
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