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The Bitter Half disrobes the reality of gender, performing a striptease of masks and prosthetic devices, the subtle articulations and miscues of desire. A spit-curl lovingly tucked behind a diamond stud earring, hair brushed pageboy-style, a bibliographic collection of mastectomy scars: Toby Olson's characters swarm with sexual multiplicity, each offering for exhibit a cyclorama of titillating identities. This game of poses, of one self revealed within another, opens in a jail in Depressionera Pearce, Arizona. Chris Pollard, a consultant in the field of prison escapology, has arrived to investigate the case of an inmate who's broken out of every prison in which he has been detained. The two develop an evasive fondness from a distance - an attention to cowlicks and thin lips from between bars. Their relationship remains concealed among levels of identity, Russian Matryoshka dolls, a mystery within a mystery. Revealing their mutual attraction inch-by-inch, ""The Bitter Half"" uncovers a topographical map of seductions, of stratified assumptions and amorphousness. Toby Olson's latest work of fiction is rich in strangeness and erotic delight, a delectation to be enjoyed one layer at a time.

About the Author :
Toby Olson, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel Seaview, has published eight works of fiction including The Life of Jesus, The Woman Who Escaped from Shame, Utah, and Dorit in Lesbos. He has also published many volumes of poetry, most recently Human Nature. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia and Cape Cod.

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"Nothing can detract from Mr. Olson's ability to conjure gorgeous prose passages that celebrate the healing powers of friendship, the pleasures of love and lovemaking, and the inborn mystery and beauty of things in this world." --New York Times Book Review "Toby Olson is one of America's most important novelists." --Robert Coover "Toby Olson takes on almost everything that a work of fiction can bear." --Los Angeles Times


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781573661324
  • Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Fiction Collective Two
  • Height: 214 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Series Title: Fiction Collective Two
  • Weight: 380 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1573661325
  • Publisher Date: 16 Aug 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 142 mm


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