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Delany, Samuel R. The Mad Man: A Novel
Masquerade Books 1994 1-56333-194-2 / 9781563331947 Paperback
Paperback - 1994 - readable condition, very slight water damage to edge - ladylisabooks - used books, secondhand books, out of print books, hard to find books, for sale, second-hand books, college books, student books, nonfiction, first edition, exlibrary books sold, signed copies, non-fiction books delivered world wide. 1-56333-194-2.Isbn 1563331942.The latest novel from Hugo- and Nebula-winning science-fiction writer and critic Delany ( They Fly at Ciron ) reads like a pornographic reflection of Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton or A.S. Byatt's Possession. Precocious philosophy graduate student John Marr becomes increasingly interested in the short life and mysterious death of Timothy Hasler, a brilliant young philosopher murdered years before in New York. As Marr investigates Hasler through the 1980s and early '90s, the details of his life begin to parallel Hasler's, and as his sexual behavior grows more outlandish and extreme, it seems he's on a track that will inevitably follow the philosopher's descent into primal perversion and death. Marr muses on Hasler's life and thought, and on his own sexual habits and interests (including the lengthening shadow of AIDS), but the novel is dominated by graphic depictions of the graduate student's grungy sexual adventures (frequently involving excrem*nt). The pornographic element, while overwhelming, becomes more than simple shock or titillation, though, as Delany develops an insightful dichotomy between Marr's two worlds: the one of cerebral philosophy and dry academia, the other of heedless, "impersonal" obsessive sexual extremism. When these worlds finally collide and Marr emerges
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