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In this auspicious debut, Dale Peck weaves together two sets of stories to create a compelling portrait of an artist in our time. The first is told episodically by John, who flees an abusive father and becomes a hustler in New York City. It's 1982, and at the age of nineteen John falls in love with Martin, who soon becomes ill with AIDS. They leave New York for Kansas, where Martin dies two years later. In his struggle to regain his own health, John obsessively orders his existence. He begins to keep a journal and then to write stories.
Interwoven with this narrative is a second set of stories, penned by John. Each has a first-person narrator named John; each centers on a couple named Martin and John, who are always, it turns out, different characters. John knows he is HIV-positive, but through his writing he learns to accept the prospect of a life that, however brief, has at least been examined. In the end, the "Martin and John" stories illuminate the frame narrative, embodying John's belief - and the author's - that "every fiction is opposed to some truth." In luminous prose and with a frankness about sexuality rarely seen in contemporary fiction, Dale Peck has written a haunting, heartrending novel that establishes him as one of our most daring young American writers.
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AIDS (Disease), Gay men, American Authors, Fiction, Patients, Authors, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Aids (disease), fictionPlaces
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Martin and John: A Novel
August 8, 2006, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
0374530300 9780374530303
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Nan ren di ai ren shi nan ren
1994, Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi yeh yu xian gong si
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9571309508 9789571309507
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Martin and John: a novel
1994, HarperPerennial
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0060975881 9780060975883
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Martin and John: a novel
1993, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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0374203113 9780374203115
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In Martin and John, Dale Peck weaves together two sets of stories to create a haunting, heartrending portrait of an artist in our time. The first is told episodically by John, a hustler in New York, who falls in love with Martin, a man dying of AIDS. Interwoven with these stories is a second set, in which characters named Martin and John appear, but living different lives. The resulting novel is a work of stunning originality that is "inspired and brilliant" (The Nation).
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