Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. The stories in DENNY SMITH use events in the life of Robert Gluck as a ground for the expansion of empathy and intellect. These events include burglary, sex, conversation, reading, humiliation, child raising, and porn. Gluck's previous books include MARGERY KEMPE and JACK THE MODERNIST, both newly available from SPD. "Flaubert says in a letter to Louise Colet that good prose should be stuffed with things. This is good prose indeed, filled with shells and duck meat and sunlight and flesh and gardening tools and sperm..."--Samuel R. Delany.
The stories, read in order, form a complete work. This work is beautiful, sensual and dreamlike, sometimes hilarious, but always with such depth. Sexuality/sensuality about life itself, astutely observed. Like a cross between Jean Genet and Reinaldo Arenas. I will read this again.
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