They Change the Subject

ISBN: 0299214745

Author: Martin, Douglas A.

Condition: New

Treacherously comic and poignant, the autobiographical stories in They Change the Subject follow a young mans quest for identity through love and desire. Sustained by a single voice, the stories simultaneously offer a fractured novel and stand, powerfully, on their own. At the center of each tale is the heightened, visceral possibility of unexpected emotional encounters-from an escorts dates in Manhattan hotels to a photo shoot that doubles as seduction. Always pushing toward a bigger shiver of passion, Martins young-man-on-the-make learns how to adapt his persona to suit his lovers needs and tries to embrace his own experience-and his self-by becoming the purest object of desire.