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Name: Jack the Modernist

Author: Robert Gluck
Year: 1985
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Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

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ISBNs:
9781852423339
1852423331

Set in the early 1980's, Robert Gluck's first novel, Jack the Modernist, has become a classic of postmodern gay fiction. Bob is excited and lonely. He meets and pursues the elusive Jack, a director who is able to transform others without altering himself. Bob goes to the baths, gossips on the phone, goes to a bar, thinks about werewolves, has an orgasm, and discovers a number of truths about Jack. A paean to love and obsession, Gluck's novel explores the everyday in a language that is both intimate and lush.

"Robert Gluck has found a new way of making fiction passionate. This novel is a strange, exhilarating love story rich with invention and observation." -Edmund White