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Circus: or, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes: A Novel

Circus: or, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes: A Novel - Paperback

by Wayne Koestenbaum
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Availability:In StockContributor:Wayne Koestenbaum, Rachel Kushner (Introduction by)Publish date:7/9/2019Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781593764869ISBN-10:1593764863UPC:9781593764869Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Humorous, Family LifeBook Topic:Dark HumorSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCF0W7SY37
A new edition of a "dazzlingly seductive" fever dream written in "brilliant poetic vernacular" (Bookforum) by a beloved poet and cultural critic, now with an introduction by Rachel Kushner.

For five years, concert pianist Theo Mangrove has been living at his family's home in East Kill, New York, recovering from a nervous breakdown that derailed his career, and attempting to relieve his relentless polysexual appetite in the company of male hustlers, random strangers, music students, his aunt, and occasionally his wife. As he prepares for a comeback recital in Aigues-Mortes, a walled medieval town in southern France, he becomes obsessed with the idea that the Italian circus star Moira Orfei must join him there to perform alongside him.

Extravagantly (and tragicomically) describing his hallucinatory plans in a series of twenty-five notebooks, he assembles an incantatory meditation on performance, failure, fame, decay, and delusion.

"If Debussy and Robert Walser had collaborated on an opera, it would sound like this. --John Ashbery
Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781593764869ISBN-10:1593764863UPC:9781593764869Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Humorous, Family LifeBook Topic:Dark HumorSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCF0W7SY37
Wayne Koestenbaum's twenty books include Camp Marmalade, Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Humiliation, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen's Throat, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A new edition of his first novel, Circus; Or, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, was published in 2019. He is a distinguished professor of English, French, and comparative literature at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. His website is waynekoestenbaum.com.
Publisher: Catapult

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Wayne Koestenbaum, Rachel Kushner (Introduction by)

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Wayne Koestenbaum

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