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Torpor

Chris Kraus

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The latest novel from the author of cult super-hit I LOVE DICK

It's Summer, 1991, the dawning of the New World Order; a post-MTV, pre-AOL generation. Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green, two former New Yorkers who can no longer afford an East Village apartment, set off on a journey across the entire former Soviet Bloc with the intention of adopting a Romanian orphan.

Unflinchingly dark, hilarious and moving, Torpor is at once a satire and philosophy of cultural history, social identity and failing relationships. Dipping into the trajectory of a life at different moments, Kraus interrogates convention and emotion, creating characters that are flawed, witty, and altogether true to life.

Part prequel, part sequel, Torpor continues a project of life-writing: personal, unsparing, and triumphant. If I Love Dick is the book of your 20s, Torpor is the book of your 30s.

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Ever since I read <i>I Love Dick</i>, I have revered it as one of the most explosive, revealing, lacerating and unusual memoirs ever committed to the page ... <i>I Love Dick </i>is never a comfortable read, and it is by turns exasperating, horrifying, and lurid, but it is never less than genuine, and often completely illuminating about the life of the mind.
s] use of tense and modality are exceptional ... the sense of anomie, of lethargy, of the noon day demon are palpable ... Kraus is capable of creating fascinating work.
[Kraus'
s hard to imagine; some works of art do this to you. They tear down so many assumptions about what the form can handle (in this case, what the form of the novel can handle) that there is no way to re-create your mind before your encounter with them</p>
<p><b>Praise for <i>I Love Dick:</i><br></b><br>'I know there was a time before I read Chris Kraus's<i> I Love Dick</i> (in fact, that time was only five years ago), but it'

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Jill Soloway, Chris Kraus, confessional writing, Aliens and Anorexia, Kevin Bacon, Sylvère Lotringer, I love dick, Marital problems, Dick Hebdige, marital breakdown, feminism, Feminist