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Jack the Modernist

Contributors:

Robert Glück (Author)

Rob Halpern (Introduction by)

Contributors: Robert Glück (Author) ; Rob Halpern (Introduction by)

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BISAC categories: Fiction -> LGBTQ+ -> Gay

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BISAC categories: Fiction -> World Literature -> American

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A cult classic now back in print, this novel about sex, obsession, and art is one of the defining works of 1980s gay fiction.

A classic of postmodern fiction, Robert Glück's Jack the Modernist portrays the slow disintegration of a love affair set in the early 1980s. 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. Out of print for decades, Glück's paean to desire and obsession explores the everyday in an idiom both intimate and lush. Sensual as well as sensational, self-conscious, but never self-serious, Jack the Modernist is a candid and heartfelt lover's discourse unlike any other.
ISBN-10: 1681379716
ISBN-13: 9781681379715
Author: Glück, Robert, Halpern, Rob, N/A
Publisher: New York Review of Books

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681379715

ISBN-10: 1681379716

Publish Date: October 28, 2025

On Sale Date: October 28, 2025

Language: English

Pages: 176

Dimensions: 7.9 × 5.0 × 0.7 in

Weight: 0.45 lbs

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