Fetish Lives

By Gail Jones

Book Overview

In this arresting and richly imaginative collection of twelve stories. Gail Jones explores the role of obsession the inescapable loves and torments she calls fetishes - in the lives of both the famous and the ordinary. Structured around a series of lyrical echoes and repeated images, her stories weave fact and speculation to recreate little-known events in the lives of such figures as Marcel Proust, Walt Whitman, and Elvis Presley that may have motivated their art and obsessed them as individuals.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807614408
• ISBN13: 9780807614402
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.4"