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Jack the Modernist

Jack the Modernist

Glück, Robert
Halpern, Rob

Paperback

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1681379716
ISBN13: 9781681379715
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A cult classic now back in print, this novel about sex, obsession, and art is one of the defining works of 1980s gay fiction.

A classic of postmodern fiction, Robert Glück's Jack the Modernist portrays the slow disintegration of a love affair set in the early 1980s. Bob is excited and lonely. He meets and pursues the elusive Jack, a director who is able to transform others without altering himself. Bob goes to the baths, gossips on the phone, goes to a bar, thinks about werewolves, has an orgasm, and discovers a number of truths about Jack. Out of print for decades, Glück's paean to desire and obsession explores the everyday in an idiom both intimate and lush. Sensual as well as sensational, self-conscious, but never self-serious, Jack the Modernist is a candid and heartfelt lover's discourse unlike any other.

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