{"product_id":"margery-kempe-9781681374314","title":"Margery Kempe","description":"\u003cb\u003eLust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century woman and Jesus Christ.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1994, Robert Glück's \u003ci\u003eMargery Kempe \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the most provocative, poignant, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One, based on the first autobiography in English, the medieval \u003ci\u003eBook of Margery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e, is about a fifteenth-century woman from East Anglia, a visionary, a troublemaker, a pilgrim to the Holy Land, and an aspiring saint, and her love affair with Jesus. It is complicated. The other is about the author's own love for an alluring and elusive young American, L. It is complicated. Between these two \u003ci\u003eMargery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e, the novel, emerges as an unprecedented exploration of desire, devotion, abjection, and sexual obsession in the form of a novel like no other novel. Robert Glück's masterpiece bears comparison with the finest work of such writers as Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. This edition includes an essay by Glück about the creation of the book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etitled \"My Margery, Margery's Bob.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16596388\"\u003eRobert Gluck\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681374314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681374315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC068000\"\u003eLGBTQ+ | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC040000\"\u003eAlternative History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC044000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Glück \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet, fiction writer, critic, and editor. With Bruce Boone, he founded the New Narrative movement in San Francisco. His poetry collections include \u003ci\u003eReader \u003c\/i\u003eand, with Boone, \u003ci\u003eLa Fontaine\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction includes the story collection \u003ci\u003eDenny Smith\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003eJack the Modernist\u003c\/i\u003e. Glück edited, with Camille Roy, Mary Berger, and Gail Scott, the anthology \u003ci\u003eBiting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e, and his collected essays, \u003ci\u003eCommunal Nude\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2016. Glück served as the director of San Francisco State's Poetry Center, co-director of the Small Press Traffic Literary Center, and associate editor at Lapis Press. He lives in San Francisco. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín \u003c\/b\u003eis Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. His latest book is \u003ci\u003eMad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44413176610955,"sku":"9781681374314","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_1429ac9c-c9e0-4ff6-be5b-919191f8a1d2.jpg?v=1761239611","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/margery-kempe-9781681374314","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}