{"product_id":"the-torturers-wife-paperback","title":"The Torturer's Wife - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Glave\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNominated for the 2010 Stonewall Book Award, the oldest book award given for outstanding achievement in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman is haunted by the atrocities committed by her husband, and makes a heart-wrenching decision about atonement; secret fears and unspoken desires reveal the profound ambivalence at the heart of an interracial couple's relationship; a Jamaican man mourns his friend's death at the hands of anti-gay vigilantes; and two extraordinary young men escape the horrors of slavery when they leave their bodies behind on the Middle Passage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown for his courageous explorations into the heavily mined territories of race and sexuality, Thomas Glave offers a series of profound portraits of the traumas of war, the ravages of homophobia and racism, and the ultimate triumph of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Torturer's Wife\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most interesting American books I have read. . . . a literary text that incites the reader to become a conscious and seduced re-reader.--Juan Goytisolo, \u003cem\u003eThe Marx Family Saga\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlave's disruption of form is a powerful metaphor for sexual, racial and geopolitical disjunctions. Glave is a gifted stylist . . . blessed with ambition, his own voice and an impressive willingness to dissect how individuals actually think and behave.--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Glave walks the path of such greats in American literature as Richard Wright and James Baldwin . . .--Gloria Naylor, \u003cem\u003eThe Women Of Brewster Place\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlave is a brilliant writer of startingly fresh prose . . . his stories are intricate tapestries of life rendered through a triumphant act of the imagination.--Clarence Major, \u003cem\u003eMy Amputations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Glave is an O. Henry award-winning author and was named a Village Voice Writer on the Verge in 2001. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWhose Song? and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWords to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction) and editor of \u003cem\u003eOur Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles\u003c\/em\u003e. He has taught at the State University of New York at Binghamton and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Glave was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. His work has earned many honors, including an O. Henry Prize and a Fulbright fellowship to Jamaica. His fiction and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and he is the editor of two anthologies of gay and lesbian writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lambda Literary Awards (2008)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758094745888,"sku":"9780872864665","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/23697d049a872a8bfbfed8364a6ecd29.webp?v=1780117839","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-torturers-wife-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}