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Phallos: Enhanced and Revised Edition

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by Samuel R. Delany
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Availability:In StockContributor:Samuel R. Delany, Robert F. Reid-Pharr (Editor), Steven Shaviro (Other)Publish date:2013-04-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819573551ISBN-10:819573558UPC:9780819573551Book Category:FictionSize:7.40 x 9.03 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SC6CMW3M8Y

A race for the stolen phallus of a nameless god

Phallos is a 2004 novel by the acclaimed novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany. Taking the form of a gay pornographic novella, with the explicit sex omitted, Phallos is set during the reign of the second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, and circles around the historical account of the murder of the emperor's favorite, Antinous. The story moves from Syracuse to Egypt, from the Pillars of Hercules to Rome, from Athens to Byzantium, and back. Young Neoptolomus searches after the stolen phallus of the nameless god of Hermopolis, crafted of gold and encrusted with jewels, within which are reputedly the ancient secrets of science and society that will lead to power, knowledge, and wealth. Vivid and clever, the original novella has been expanded by nearly a third. Appended to the text are an afterword by Robert F. Reid-Pharr and three astute speculative essays by Steven Shaviro, Kenneth R. James, and Darieck Scott.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819573551ISBN-10:819573558UPC:9780819573551Book Category:FictionSize:7.40 x 9.03 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SC6CMW3M8Y

SAMUEL R. DELANY teaches English and creative writing at Temple University and is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most recently his novel Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. ROBERT F. REID-PHARR is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and author of Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual.


Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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Revised Edition

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Samuel R. Delany, Robert F. Reid-Pharr (Editor), Steven Shaviro (Other)

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Samuel R. Delany

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