Go the Way Your Blood Beats
On Truth and Desire
Published on 15. February 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
138 pages
978-1-910924-71-6 (ISBN)
Description
Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire.
A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised, it is a meditation on desire's unknowability. Interwoven with anonymous addresses to past loves - the sex of whom remain obscure - the book demonstrates the universalism of human desire.
Part essay, part memoir, part love letter, Go the Way Your Blood Beats asks us to see desire and sexuality as analogous with art - a mysterious, creative force.
A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised, it is a meditation on desire's unknowability. Interwoven with anonymous addresses to past loves - the sex of whom remain obscure - the book demonstrates the universalism of human desire.
Part essay, part memoir, part love letter, Go the Way Your Blood Beats asks us to see desire and sexuality as analogous with art - a mysterious, creative force.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Watkins Media Limited
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
157 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910924-71-6 (9781910924716)
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Person
Michael Amherst is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. His work has been published internationally, including in the Guardian, New Statesman, the Spectator, The White Review and Contrappasso magazine. He was shortlisted for the 2012 Bridport Prize and longlisted for the 2014 BBC Opening Lines and 2015 Bath Short Story Prize. His work has also featured at Stroud Short Stories, the inaugural London LitCrawl and the Accidental Festival at London's Roundhouse.
He graduated from the University of East Anglia's prestigious Creative Writing MA in 2007 and is currently a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London.
He graduated from the University of East Anglia's prestigious Creative Writing MA in 2007 and is currently a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London.