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The Women I Love

Francesco Pacifico

3.3/5 ( ratings)

A provocative and bracing sendup of modern masculinity, from the author of Class and The Story of My Purity

Marcello, an editor and poet, is on the brink of his forties. Like everyone in his life, including his sister-in-law, he's writing a novel. This novel. This novel will be about women. Love. Growing older. Maybe even taking responsibility. But unfortunately for Marcello, the women in his life resist definition. They flit and flicker constantly between archetype and actuality: sirens and saviors, subordinates and savants, vixens and villains.

So Marcello cannot write plainly about love. Instead, he tries to write into the complexities of his many relationships: Eleonora, the junior editor, his former protege� and sometime lover; Barbara, his claustrophobic girlfriend; his estranged gay sister; his elegant mother.

Fresh, frank, and painfully cool, Francesco Pacifico's The Women I Love dives nakedly into gender, sex, and power. Set in a vivid and alcoholic Italy, it acknowledges and subverts the narrow ways canonical male writers gaze at, and somehow fail to see, women--illuminating the possibility of equity between people in love, in bed, in work, and in life.

Pages: 288

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: December 07, 2021

ISBN: 0374292728

ISBN 13: 9780374292720

The Women I Love

Francesco Pacifico

3.3/5 ( ratings)

A provocative and bracing sendup of modern masculinity, from the author of Class and The Story of My Purity

Marcello, an editor and poet, is on the brink of his forties. Like everyone in his life, including his sister-in-law, he's writing a novel. This novel. This novel will be about women. Love. Growing older. Maybe even taking responsibility. But unfortunately for Marcello, the women in his life resist definition. They flit and flicker constantly between archetype and actuality: sirens and saviors, subordinates and savants, vixens and villains.

So Marcello cannot write plainly about love. Instead, he tries to write into the complexities of his many relationships: Eleonora, the junior editor, his former protege� and sometime lover; Barbara, his claustrophobic girlfriend; his estranged gay sister; his elegant mother.

Fresh, frank, and painfully cool, Francesco Pacifico's The Women I Love dives nakedly into gender, sex, and power. Set in a vivid and alcoholic Italy, it acknowledges and subverts the narrow ways canonical male writers gaze at, and somehow fail to see, women--illuminating the possibility of equity between people in love, in bed, in work, and in life.

Pages: 288

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: December 07, 2021

ISBN: 0374292728

ISBN 13: 9780374292720

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