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Book TitleMen and Apparitions : a Novel

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCultural Heritage, Literary, Coming of Age

Publication Year2018

GenreFiction

AuthorLynne Tillman

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight18.2 Oz

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ReviewsPraise for Lynne Tillman "Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of mine -- not because I 'admire' her writing, (although I do, very, very much), but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That's how I feel." --Jonathan Safran Foer "Lynne Tillman's writing is bracing, absurd, argumentative, and luminous. She never fails to exhibit her unique capacities for watchfulness and astonishment." --Jonathan Lethem "Like an acupuncturist, Lynne Tillman knows the precise points in which to sink her delicate probes. One of the biggest problems in composing fiction is understanding what to leave out; no one is more severe, more elegant, more shocking in her reticences than Tillman." --Edmund White The Complete Madame Realism (2016) "The discursive narratives of the Madame Realism stories mimic the experiences of museum going and sightseeing and have a disjunctive quality that resembles the fragmentary novels of Renata Adler and the essayistic miniatures of Lydia Davis. It's remarkable that Tillman has created her own genre. It doesn't seem to me a genre many could profitably duplicate." --Christian Lorentzen, New York magazine Someday This Will be Funny (2011) "Gorgeously at ease and technically virtuosic . . . Tillman is simply a terrific prose stylist whose work should have wide appeal." -- New York Times Book Review American Genius, A Comedy (2006) "To read Tillman's tightly woven novel, which meshes inner and outer realms as well as past and present, is to enter into an intense relationship, a communion with another spirit, perhaps with some sort of genius. An involvement that, like all forms of heightened attention, be it friendship, love, hate, or pursuits intellectual or creative, is demanding and bewitching, harrowing and bemusing, revelatory and transforming." --Donna Seaman, Bookforum "[F]lawed, beautiful, sacred, insane." --George Saunders, Praise for Men and Apparitions by Lynne Tillman "Lynne Tillman is still her established sui generis self. In this creation she gives us an emblematic (but unique) protagonist's sharp observations and drive-by meditations on the many conundrums of identity and purpose of our time. This book is compelling and bracing and you read many sentences twice to get all the juice there is in them." --Norman Rush, author of Mating and Subtle Bodies Praise for Lynne Tillman "Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of mine -- not because I 'admire' her writing, (although I do, very, very much), but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That's how I feel." --Jonathan Safran Foer "Lynne Tillman's writing is bracing, absurd, argumentative, and luminous. She never fails to exhibit her unique capacities for watchfulness and astonishment." --Jonathan Lethem "Like an acupuncturist, Lynne Tillman knows the precise points in which to sink her delicate probes. One of the biggest problems in composing fiction is understanding what to leave out; no one is more severe, more elegant, more shocking in her reticences than Tillman." --Edmund White Praise for The Complete Madame Realism (2016) "The discursive narratives of the Madame Realism stories mimic the experiences of museum going and sightseeing and have a disjunctive quality that resembles the fragmentary novels of Renata Adler and the essayistic miniatures of Lydia Davis. It's remarkable that Tillman has created her own genre. It doesn't seem to me a genre many could profitably duplicate." --Christian Lorentzen, New York magazine Praise for Someday This Will be Funny (2011) "Gorgeously at ease and technically virtuosic . . . Tillman is simply a terrific prose stylist whose work should have wide appeal." -- New York Times Book Review Praise for American Genius, A Comedy (2006) "To read Tillman's tightly woven novel, which meshes inner and outer realms as well as past and present, is to enter into an intense relationship, a communion with another spirit, perhaps with some sort of genius. An involvement that, like all forms of heightened attention, be it friendship, love, hate, or pursuits intellectual or creative, is demanding and bewitching, harrowing and bemusing, revelatory and transforming." --Donna Seaman, Bookforum "[F]lawed, beautiful, sacred, insane." --George Saunders, Praise for Lynne Tillman Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of mine not because I admire her writing, (although I do, very, very much), but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That's how I feel. Jonathan Safran Foer Lynne Tillman's writing is bracing, absurd, argumentative, and luminous. She never fails to exhibit her unique capacities for watchfulness and astonishment. Jonathan Lethem Like an acupuncturist, Lynne Tillman knows the precise points in which to sink her delicate probes. One of the biggest problems in composing fiction is understanding what to leave out; no one is more severe, more elegant, more shocking in her reticences than Tillman. Edmund White The Complete Madame Realism (2016) The discursive narratives of the Madame Realism stories mimic the experiences of museum going and sightseeing and have a disjunctive quality that resembles the fragmentary novels of Renata Adler and the essayistic miniatures of Lydia Davis. It s remarkable that Tillman has created her own genre. It doesn t seem to me a genre many could profitably duplicate. Christian Lorentzen, New York magazine Someday This Will be Funny (2011) Gorgeously at ease and technically virtuosic . . . Tillman is simply a terrific prose stylist whose work should have wide appeal. New York Times Book Review American Genius, A Comedy (2006) To read Tillman s tightly woven novel, which meshes inner and outer realms as well as past and present, is to enter into an intense relationship, a communion with another spirit, perhaps with some sort of genius. An involvement that, like all forms of heightened attention, be it friendship, love, hate, or pursuits intellectual or creative, is demanding and bewitching, harrowing and bemusing, revelatory and transforming. Donna Seaman, Bookforum [F]lawed, beautiful, sacred, insane. George Saunders", Praise for Men and Apparitions by Lynne Tillman Selected as 1 of 101 Books to get excited about in 2018 by BookRiot "Lynne Tillman is still her established sui generis self. In this creation she gives us an emblematic (but unique) protagonist's sharp observations and drive-by meditations on the many conundrums of identity and purpose of our time. This book is compelling and bracing and you read many sentences twice to get all the juice there is in them." --Norman Rush, author of Mating and Subtle Bodies "No one anywhere writes more vibrantly and astutely into the gut of culture than Lynne Tillman. I always want to eat her books because her language is profoundly embodied. She is my secular art angel, my intellectual and creative hope, my full-blown galaxy. In Men and Apparitions , readers take a ride on the back of Zeke Hooper through culture, masculinity, art, being, and knowing--like entering a language-and-experience kaleidoscope." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit's Manifesto and The Chronology of Water "A powerful disquisition on memory, media and melancholia."--Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island and Remainder "Lynne Tillman's first novel in a dozen years crackles with pent-up energy. Brimming with her trademark wit and vibrancy, Men and Apparitions is a confirmation of a sadly under-acknowledged truth: Lynne Tillman is a genius." --Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books (Point Reyes Station, CA) Praise for Lynne Tillman "Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of mine -- not because I 'admire' her writing, (although I do, very, very much), but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That's how I feel." --Jonathan Safran Foer "Lynne Tillman's writing is bracing, absurd, argumentative, and luminous. She never fails to exhibit her unique capacities for watchfulness and astonishment." --Jonathan Lethem "Like an acupuncturist, Lynne Tillman knows the precise points in which to sink her delicate probes. One of the biggest problems in composing fiction is understanding what to leave out; no one is more severe, more elegant, more shocking in her reticences than Tillman." --Edmund White Praise for The Complete Madame Realism (2016) "The discursive narratives of the Madame Realism stories mimic the experiences of museum going and sightseeing and have a disjunctive quality that resembles the fragmentary novels of Renata Adler and the essayistic miniatures of Lydia Davis. It's remarkable that Tillman has created her own genre. It doesn't seem to me a genre many could profitably duplicate." --Christian Lorentzen, New York magazine Praise for Someday This Will be Funny (2011) "Gorgeously at ease and technically virtuosic . . . Tillman is simply a terrific prose stylist whose work should have wide appeal." -- New York Times Book Review Praise for American Genius, A Comedy (2006) "To read Tillman's tightly woven novel, which meshes inner and outer realms as well as past and present, is to enter into an intense relationship, a communion with another spirit, perhaps with some sort of genius. An involvement that, like all forms of heightened attention, be it friendship, love, hate, or pursuits intellectual or creative, is demanding and bewitching, harrowing and bemusing, revelatory and transforming." --Donna Seaman, Bookforum "[F]lawed, beautiful, sacred, insane." --George Saunders, Praise for Men and Apparitions by Lynne Tillman "Lynne Tillman is still her established sui generis self. In this creation she gives us an emblematic (but unique) protagonist's sharp observations and drive-by meditations on the many conundrums of identity and purpose of our time. This book is compelling and bracing and you read many sentences twice to get all the juice there is in them." --Norman Rush, author of Mating and Subtle Bodies "No one anywhere writes more vibrantly and astutely into the gut of culture than Lynne Tillman. I always want to eat her books because her language is profoundly embodied. She is my secular art angel, my intellectual and creative hope, my full-blown galaxy. In Men and Apparitions , readers take a ride on the back of Zeke Hooper through culture, masculinity, art, being, and knowing--like entering a language-and-experience kaleidoscope." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit's Manifesto and The Chronology of Water "A powerful disquisition on memory, media and melancholia."--Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island and Remainder "Lynne Tillman's first novel in a dozen years crackles with pent-up energy. Brimming with her trademark wit and vibrancy, Men and Apparitions is a confirmation of a sadly under-acknowledged truth: Lynne Tillman is a genius." --Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books (Point Reyes Station, CA) Praise for Lynne Tillman "Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of mine -- not because I 'admire' her writing, (although I do, very, very much), but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That's how I feel." --Jonathan Safran Foer "Lynne Tillman's writing is bracing, absurd, argumentative, and luminous. She never fails to exhibit her unique capacities for watchfulness and astonishment." --Jonathan Lethem "Like an acupuncturist, Lynne Tillman knows the precise points in which to sink her delicate probes. One of the biggest problems in composing fiction is understanding what to leave out; no one is more severe, more elegant, more shocking in her reticences than Tillman." --Edmund White Praise for The Complete Madame Realism (2016) "The discursive narratives of the Madame Realism stories mimic the experiences of museum going and sightseeing and have a disjunctive quality that resembles the fragmentary novels of Renata Adler and the essayistic miniatures of Lydia Davis. It's remarkable that Tillman has created her own genre. It doesn't seem to me a genre many could profitably duplicate." --Christian Lorentzen, New York magazine Praise for Someday This Will be Funny (2011) "Gorgeously at ease and technically virtuosic . . . Tillman is simply a terrific prose stylist whose work should have wide appeal." -- New York Times Book Review Praise for American Genius, A Comedy (2006) "To read Tillman's tightly woven novel, which meshes inner and outer realms as well as past and present, is to enter into an intense relationship, a communion with another spirit, perhaps with some sort of genius. An involvement that, like all forms of heightened attention, be it friendship, love, hate, or pursuits intellectual or creative, is demanding and bewitching, harrowing and bemusing, revelatory and transforming." --Donna Seaman, Bookforum "[F]lawed, beautiful, sacred, insane." --George Saunders, Praise for Men and Apparitions by Lynne Tillman "Lynne Tillman is still her established sui generis self. In this creation she gives us an emblematic (but unique) protagonist's sharp observations and drive-by meditations on the many conundrums of identity and purpose of our time. This book is compelling and bracing and you read many sentences twice to get all the juice there is in them." --Norman Rush, author of Mating and Subtle Bodies "Lynne Tillman's first novel in a dozen years crackles with pent-up energy. Brimming with her trademark wit and vibrancy, Men and Apparitions is a confirmation of a sadly under-acknowledged truth: Lynne Tillman is a genius." --Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books (Point Reyes Station, CA) Praise for Lynne Tillman "Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of mine -- not because I 'admire' her writing, (although I do, very, very much), but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That's how I feel." --Jonathan Safran Foer "Lynne Tillman's writing is bracing, absurd, argumentative, and luminous. She never fails to exhibit her unique capacities for watchfulness and astonishment." --Jonathan Lethem "Like an acupuncturist, Lynne Tillman knows the precise points in which to sink her delicate probes. One of the biggest problems in composing fiction is understanding what to leave out; no one is more severe, more elegant, more shocking in her reticences than Tillman." --Edmund White Praise for The Complete Madame Realism (2016) "The discursive narratives of the Madame Realism stories mimic the experiences of museum going and sightseeing and have a disjunctive quality that resembles the fragmentary novels of Renata Adler and the essayistic miniatures of Lydia Davis. It's remarkable that Tillman has created her own genre. It doesn't seem to me a genre many could profitably duplicate." --Christian Lorentzen, New York magazine Praise for Someday This Will be Funny (2011) "Gorgeously at ease and technically virtuosic . . . Tillman is simply a terrific prose stylist whose work should have wide appeal." -- New York Times Book Review Praise for American Genius, A Comedy (2006) "To read Tillman's tightly woven novel, which meshes inner and outer realms as well as past and present, is to enter into an intense relationship, a communion with another spirit, perhaps with some sort of genius. An involvement that, like all forms of heightened attention, be it friendship, love, hate, or pursuits intellectual or creative, is demanding and bewitching, harrowing and bemusing, revelatory and transforming." --Donna Seaman, Bookforum "[F]lawed, beautiful, sacred, insane." --George Saunders, Praise for Men and Apparitions by Lynne Tillman Selected as 1 of 101 Books to get excited about in 2018 by BookRiot "Lynne Tillman is still her established sui generis self. In this creation she gives us an emblematic (but unique) protagonist's sharp observations and drive-by meditations on the many conundrums of identity and purpose of our time. This book is compelling and bracing and you read many sentences twice to get all the juice there is in them." --Norman Rush, author of Mating and Subtle Bodies "No one anywhere writes more vibrantly and astutely into the gut of culture than Lynne Tillman. I always want to eat her books because her language is profoundly embodied. She is my secular art angel, my intellectual and creative hope, my full-blown galaxy. In Men and Apparitions , readers take a ride on the back of Zeke Hooper through culture, masculinity, art, being, and knowing--like entering a language-and-experience kaleidoscope." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit's Manifesto and The Chronology of Water "A powerful disquisition on memory, media and melancholia."--Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island and Remainder "As a steadfast Lynne Tillman fan, I am grateful for her authentically weird and often indescribable books. She gives me permission to continue to try to write such work myself." --Sarah Manguso, author of 300 Arguments and The Guardians "Lynne Tillman's first novel in a dozen years crackles with pent-up energy. Brimming with her trademark wit and vibrancy, Men and Apparitions is a confirmation of a sadly under-acknowledged truth: Lynne Tillman is a genius." --Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books (Point Reyes Station, CA) Praise for Lynne Tillman "Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of mine -- not because I 'admire' her writing, (although I do, very, very much), but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That's how I feel." --Jonathan Safran Foer "Lynne Tillman's writing is bracing, absurd, argumentative, and luminous. She never fails to exhibit her unique capacities for watchfulness and astonishment." --Jonathan Lethem "Like an acupuncturist, Lynne Tillman knows the precise points in which to sink her delicate probes. One of the biggest problems in composing fiction is understanding what to leave out; no one is more severe, more elegant, more shocking in her reticences than Tillman." --Edmund White Praise for The Complete Madame Realism (2016) "The discursive narratives of the Madame Realism stories mimic the experiences of museum going and sightseeing and have a disjunctive quality that resembles the fragmentary novels of Renata Adler and the essayistic miniatures of Lydia Davis. It's remarkable that Tillman has created her own genre. It doesn't seem to me a genre many could profitably duplicate." --Christian Lorentzen, New York magazine Praise for Someday This Will be Funny (2011) "Gorgeously at ease and technically virtuosic . . . Tillman is simply a terrific prose stylist whose work should have wide appeal." -- New York Times Book Review Praise for American Genius, A Comedy (2006) "To read Tillman's tightly woven novel, which meshes inner and outer realms as well as past and present, is to enter into an intense relationship, a communion with another spirit, perhaps with some sort of genius. An involvement that, like all forms of heightened attention, be it friendship, love, hate, or pursuits intellectual or creative, is demanding and bewitching, harrowing and bemusing, revelatory and transforming." --Donna Seaman, Bookforum "[F]lawed, beautiful, sacred, insane." --George Saunders

SynopsisOur days are cluttered with a "glut of images." What does this mean? Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our time through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, specialist in family photography., Our days are cluttered with a "glut of images." What does that mean? Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our era through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, specialist in family photography., We are the Picture People. I name us Picture People because most special and obvious about the species is, our kind lives on and for pictures, lives as and for images, our species takes pictures, makes pix, thinks in pix. What is behind the human drive to create, remake, and keep images from and of everything? What does it mean that we now live in a "glut of images?" Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our era through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, specialist in family photographs. As Ezekiel progresses from a child obsessed with his family's photo albums to young and passionate researcher to a man devastated by betrayal in love, his academic fascinations determine and reflect his course, touching on such various subjects as discarded images, pet pictures, spirit mediums, the tragic life of his long-dead cousin the semi-famous socialite Clover Adams, and the nature of contemporary masculinity. Kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic, madcap and wry, this book showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliantly original novelist but as one of our most prominent thinkers on culture and visual culture today., Today we live in a "glut of images." What does that mean? Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our era through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, specialist in family photographs. We are the Picture People. I name us Picture People because most special and obvious about the species is, our kind lives on and for pictures, lives as and for images, our species takes pictures, makes pix, thinks in pix. What is behind the human drive to create, remake, and keep images from and of everything? What does it mean that we now live in a "glut of images?" Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our era through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, specialist in family photographs. As Ezekiel progresses from a child obsessed with his family's photo albums to a young and passionate researcher to a man devastated by betrayal in love, his academic fascinations determine and reflect his course, touching on such various subjects as discarded images, pet pictures, spirit mediums, the tragic life of his long-dead cousin the semi-famous socialite Clover Adams, and the nature of contemporary masculinity. Kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic, madcap and wry, this book that showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliant original novelist but also as one of our most prominent thinkers on culture and visual culture today., "Lynne Tillman lends her remarkable talents to answer questions about today's obsession with images. Through the eyes of cultural anthropologist Ezekiel Hooper Stark, she asks: What is behind the human drive to create, remake, and keep images?" -- Bustle , 1 of 15 Best Fiction Books of March 2018 to Kick Off Your Spring Reading "The universe heaves with laughter, and I'm all about my lopsided, self-defining tale. How I came to be me, not you, how I'm shaping me for you, the way my posse and other native informants do for me, how I'm shape-shifting. I'm telling you that I'm telling you; my self is my field . . ." The time is now, and Ezekiel Hooper Stark is thirty-eight. He's a cultural anthropologist, an ethnographer of family photographs, a wry speculator about images. From childhood, his own family's idiosyncrasies, perversities, and pathologies propel Zeke, until love lost sends him spiraling out of control in Europe. Back in the U.S.A., he finds unexpected solace in the image of a notable nineteenth-century relative, Clover Hooper Adams. Zeke embarks on a project, MEN IN QUOTES, focusing his anthropological lens on his own kind: the "New Man," born under the sign of feminism. All the old models of masculinity are broken. How are you different from your father? Zeke asks his male subjects. What do you expect from women? What does Zeke expect from himself? And what will the reader expect of Zeke--is he a Don Quixote, Holden Caulfield, Underground Man, or Stranger? Kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic, comic, tragic, and philosophical, Men and Apparitions showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliantly original novelist but also as one of our most prominent contemporary thinkers on art, culture, and society.

LC Classification NumberPS3570.I42M46 2018