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As a Friend
"Heroism is a secondary virtue," Albert Camus noted, "but friendship is primary." In his gem-like first novel, Forrest Gander writes of friendship, envy, and eros as a harmonic of charged overtones. Set in a rural southern landscape as vivid as its indelible characters, As a Friend tells the story of Les, a gifted man and land surveyor, whose impact on those around him (his friend Clay, his girlfriend Sarah) provokes intense self-examination and an atmosphere of dangerous eroticism. With poetic insight, Gander explores the nature of attraction, betrayal, and loyalty. What he achieves is brilliant in style and powerfully unsettling.
Book Details
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2008
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.28in - 4.28in - 0.30in - 0.21lb
- EAN: 9780811217453
- Categories: • Literary• Friendship
About the Author
Gander, Forrest: - Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in California. He taught at Harvard University and Brown University. Gander is a translator and the author of many books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received a Pulitzer Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Whiting, and United States Artists Foundations.
Praise for this book
In this strange and beautiful novel as in life, love is part of what is sacred.--Jeanette Winterson "The New York Times Book Review"
The clarity of artistic vision, formal innovation, and emotional honesty of As a Friend are enviable.--J. T. Townley "Harvard Review"
An adoring friendship turns deadly in poet and translator Gander's visceral if too brief first novel.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Its length is an asset...lending the book the same mercurial qualities as its ostensible subject, the doomed, magnetic Les.--Joyelle McSweeney "American Book Review"