{"product_id":"the-torturers-wife-thomas-glave-9780872864665","title":"The Torturer's Wife","description":"\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\u003e\"Glave'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\u003e\"Thomas 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\u003e\"Glave 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Glave\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0872864669\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872864665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/29\/2008 pg. 60","brand":"Thomas Glave","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947426283775,"sku":"9780872864665","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e0ce7f4b-339a-49c3-9864-9371fde1ecd0.jpg?v=1681518654","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-torturers-wife-thomas-glave-9780872864665","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}