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Fantasies of the Body

Fantasies of the Body

Plante, David

Paperback

General GLBTQIA Fiction

Publisher Price: $12.95

ISBN10: 196310112X
ISBN13: 9781963101126
Publisher: Green City Books
Published: Mar 24 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In this short, masterful gem of a novel, David Plante's seasoned narrator contemplates the connection between physical beauty and love, drawing on literary references and personal experiences to explore these themes.

The unnamed narrator of this brief, urgent novel, a young novelist making his way in the literary world, writes of his fascination with two enigmatic, troubled young men, one a Boston Brahmin and the other a lofty undergraduate at England's Cambridge University whom the narrator meets during his writer-in-residency. With each young man the narrator engages in a complex relationship filled with intellectual and erotic tension and each relationship leaves him feeling unfulfilled. By contrast, the narrator relates the story of his deep and abiding romantic life with an English poet, who introduces him to the remaining members of The Bloomsbury group as well as E.M. Forster and who guides him toward the publishers who bring out his early work. However, the poet dies young, and the narrator is once against cast adrift and his quest to find new, intimate interactions with the tragic young men he encounters causes him to reflect on the nature of beauty, love, and the intellectual life, emphasizing the transient and often unfulfilled desires that drive human connections.

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