If the book is imagined as a body, then cleanness - a total lack of shame in putting sexual passion on the page - is what it achieves in these refreshing depictions. Greenwell may be the finest writer of sex currently at work. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509874637 Number of pages: 240 Weight: 360 g Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 23 mm MEDIA REVIEWS In exacting, elegant prose, Greenwell transcribes the strange dialects of desire, cementing his stature as one of our most vital living writers. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit, and with our own fugitive selves.Ĭleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell's beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared 'an instant classic' by the New York Times Book Review. A queer student's confession recalls his own first love, a stranger's seduction devolves into paternal sadism, and a romance with a younger man opens, and heals, old wounds.

As he prepares to leave the place he's come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past. In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song. Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Here is love and sex as art, as pulse, as truth' - Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women ' Cleanness is stunning, provocatively revelatory and atmospherically profound.

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