As a friend
Record details
- ISBN: 0811217450
- ISBN: 9780811217453
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Physical Description:
106 pages ; 19 cm
print - Publisher: New York : New Directions Pub., ©2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A New Directions paperbook original (NDP1104)"--Title page verso. |
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Subject: | Friendship Fiction Friendship Friendship Fiction |
Genre: | Fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | F GANDER (Text) | 000132043 | Fiction | Available | - |
As a Friend : A Novel
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Summary
As a Friend : A Novel
"Heroism is a secondary virtue," Albert Camus noted, "but friendship is primary." In his gem-like first novel, Forrest Gander writes of friendship, envy, and eros as a harmonic of charged overtones. Set in a rural southern landscape as vivid as its indelible characters, As a Friend tells the story of Les, a gifted man and land surveyor, whose impact on those around him (his friend Clay, his girlfriend Sarah) provokes intense self-examination and an atmosphere of dangerous eroticism. With poetic insight, Gander explores the nature of attraction, betrayal, and loyalty. What he achieves is brilliant in style and powerfully unsettling.