Twentysix
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (656 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 095679260X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of Ghosting and London Triptych, which was shortlisted for the inaugural Green Carnation Prize and won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.. About the AuthorJonathan Kemp teaches creative writing, literature, and queer theory at Birkbeck, University of London. He also DJs
Powerfully staging these anonymous encounters and describing each with luminous intensity, he continually tests the boundaries of sex, desire, and the body until he is faced with the ultimate challenge: to capture adequately in words the physical sensations he experiences.. In the tradition of Georges Bataille, Kathy Acker, and Jean Genet, these 26 erotic encounters combine to form a highly charged alphabet on the pursuit of pleasure and possibilities of language. A nameless man graphically details his experiences as he cruises from parks to sex clubs in a relentless pursuit of pleasure and sexual gratification
He also DJs. He is the author of Ghosting and London Triptych, which was shortlisted for the inaugural Green Carnation Prize and won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.. Jonathan Kemp teaches creative writing, literature, and queer theory at Birkbeck, University of London
A masterpiece The twenty-six very-short stories in this debut solo collection of m/m erotica are ostensibly arranged, as the title suggests, like a child’s alphabet, but with decidedly mature literary ambitions, and an undeniably grownup sexual sensibility. The language is beyond impressive, though author Jonathan Kemp consciously expends a great deal of it to lament the very inadequacies of language, the impotence of mere words confronting the sublime nexus of thought and sensati. Multi-layered and Provocative booklover Twenty-Six is the second Jonathan Kemp book I have read, the other being London Triptych. This novel has much beautiful writing, often genuinely poetic.The novel's great strength to me is its portrayal of the extremes of sexuality as collective attempts to possess perfection. There is a feeling in each of the twenty-six episodes that the protagonists seek the impossible, that they push, pull, twist--tear, if you will--their bodies in the pursuit of an ultimate communion wi. jolts the memory Gary Mark C. Ignacio Great snippets of intoxicating encounters and truthful attempts at giving meaning and essence to them. Elegant prose for sexually explicit content.