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In this extraordinary, multilayered novel of crisis and yearning, Joseph McElroy illuminates with tenderness male and female union and apartness. The high water mark of a distinguished career--a powerful achievement.
Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, the author’s longest and most ambitious narrative Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York — from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself.
1 sty 2001 · Women and Men. Joseph McElroy. 4.11. 295 ratings62 reviews. Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself.
The best part of Women and Men are McElroy’s sentences. His prose is a stream of unconsciousness, half of his chapters take us inside the minds of his characters, where we sift through disparate thoughts, memories, and emotions, and form connections and ideations in real time along with them.
1 kwi 1993 · McElroy rests a global vision on two people, apartment-house neighbors who never quite meet. Except, that is, in the population of others whose histories cross theirs―believers and skeptics; lovers, friends, and hermits; children, parents, grandparents, avatars, and, apparently, angels.
The plot focuses on the lives of James Mayn, a journalist come to New York from a town in New Jersey, and Grace Kimball, a feminist/therapist who conducts what she calls a Body-Self workshop for ...
Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York--from experiments in the chaotic...
