
JD
A Novel
Mark Merlis(Author)
Terrace Books (Publisher)
Published on 28. February 2015
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-299-30350-1 (ISBN)
Description
Jonathan Ascher, a radical writer and cultural hero in the 1960s, has been dead for thirty years. When a would-be biographer approaches his widow, Martha, she delves for the first time into her husband's papers. She finds journals that begin as a wisecracking chronicle of life at the fringes of the New York literary scene, Jonathan's adventures in the sexual underground, and the social upheavals that led to his famous book JD. As Martha reads on, she finds herself in a long-distance conversation with her dead husband, fighting with him again about their rocky life together and learning about the unseen tragic drama in her own apartment that ended with the destruction of their son, Mickey. Learning about herself, finally, through her confrontation with a man who will not let her go, even in death. JD is a brilliant and harrowing view of a half century of the American experiment, acted out on a small stage by three people who cannot find a way-neither sex nor touch nor words-to speak their love for one another.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Madison
United States
Publishing group
University of Wisconsin Press
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
437 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-30350-1 (9780299303501)
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Mark Merlis is the author of the novels American Studies, An Arrow's Flight, and Man About Town. His work has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the Lambda Literary Award.