Once You Go Back
A Novel
Published on 4. January 2011
208 pages
978-1-58322-944-6 (ISBN)
Description
In 2000, Douglas A. Martin burst onto the American literary scene with his sexy debut novel, Outline of My Lover. Following up with three more books, including Branwell, a novel of the Brontë brother, Martin has established himself as an acclaimed and distinctive American writer of the new century. His semi-autobiographical novel Once You Go Back is about growing up in a strained working-class household transplanted to the South. In his inimitably elliptical and evocative style, Martin carefully brings out the curiosity of children on the verge of becoming sexual, and their confusion in the midst of family violence.
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09/2009
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DOUGLAS A. MARTIN is the author of Branwell; Outline of My Lover (selected by Colm Toibin as International Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement); They Change the Subject, a book of stories; and In the Time of Assignments, a book of poetry. Born in Virginia in 1973, and raised in Georgia, he now lives in New York City.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Chapter 1 - A Tall One
- Chapter 2 - The Dark
- Chapter 3 - Kinder
- Chapter 4 - Coast
- Chapter 5 - Father Bob
- Chapter 6 - Girl Scouts
- Chapter 7 - The Nursery
- Chapter 8 - A Vet
- Chapter 9 - Billy's House
- Chapter 10 - Jessup
- Chapter 11 - Florida
- Chapter 12 - The Sea
- Chapter 13 - The Holiday Inn
- Chapter 14 - The Life Force
- Chapter 15 - He Moves In
- Chapter 16 - Peeps
- Chapter 17 - Coach
- Chapter 18 - House
- Chapter 19 - Field Trip
- Chapter 20 - Maroon
- Chapter 21 - Dissent
- Chapter 22 - Angel N.
- Chapter 23 - Dark Shadows
- Chapter 24 - Histories
- Chapter 25 - T.
- Chapter 26 - Girls
- Chapter 27 - Strays
- Chapter 28 - Starring
- Chapter 29 - The Drive-In
- Chapter 30 - The City
- Chapter 31 - Casualties
- Chapter 32 - The Base
- About the Author
- About Seven Stories Press
