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Adam McOmber's lush, hallucinatory stories are both familiar and wholly original. Drawn from the historical record, Biblical lore, fairy tales, science fiction, and nightmares, these offbeat and fantastical works explore gender and sexuality in their darkest and most beautiful manifestations. In the tradition of Angela Carter or Kelly Link, My House Gathers Desires is covertly funny and haunting, seeking fresh ways to consider sexual identity and its relation to history. In "Sodom and Gomorrah," readers encounter a subversive, ecstatic new version of the Old Testament story. In "The Re'em," a medieval monk's search for a mythic beast conjures forbidden desire. And in "Notes on Inversion," the German psychiatrist Kraft-Ebbing receives a surreal retort to his clinical descriptions of same-sex desire. From "Sodom and Gomorrah" The strangers then are no longer like two men at all. They have undressed themselves, giving up the pretense of skin and becoming a denser part of the air. We are hungry for them. Ours is a sacred desire that was buried too long in our chests, like some city beneath the sand. Adam McOmber is the author of The White Forest (Touchstone, 2012) and This New & Poisonous Air (BOA, 2011), from which he had stories nominated for two 2012 Pushcart Prizes. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review , and Fairy Tale Review . He served as the managing and associate editor of Hotel America at Columbia College Chicago from 2007-2015. He now lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he teaches at Loyola Marymount University.

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Boa Editions, The Limited
ISBN-10
1942683413
ISBN-13
9781942683414
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Book Title
My House Gathers Desires
Author
Adam Mcomber
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3613.C58645a6 2017
Reviews
"In the mode of Shirley Jackson, A. S. Byatt, Kathryn Davis, and Kelly Link, McOmber has fashioned crisply rendered, richly informed and imagined, sorrowful, malevolently erotic, and archly funny campfire tales for grownups." -- Booklist, "If Adam McOmber didn't make it clear enough in his first two books of fiction that his imagination knows no bounds, his new collection My House Gathers Desires (BOA Editions) is fresh and certain evidence. His pantry of interests is on full display, is in full play, as he navigates gender and sexuality through the lens of dark dreams, science fiction, medical quackery, and fairy tales. The reader travels from a dark lake in the opening story to a collaboration of voices in the final story who dare us not to imagine sitting around a campfire to hear daring new possibilities of queer story telling." -- Brian Leung, Lambda Literary
Table of Content
CONTENTS Hydrophobia Petit Trianon Sodom and Gomorrah Poet and Underworld Swaingrove Versailles, 1623 The Rite of Spring Homunculus The Coil Sleep and Death Night is Nearly Done The Re'em Metempsychosis History of a Saint Notes on Inversion
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2017-010672
Intended Audience
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