Author | Amanda Filipacchi |
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Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Viking |
Publication date | 1993 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print ( Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 288pp |
ISBN | 0-670-84785-2 |
OCLC | 26672255 |
813/.54 20 | |
LC Class | PS3556.I428 N83 1993 |
Followed by | Vapor |
Nude Men is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. At age twenty-two, she wrote it as her thesis for Columbia University's graduate creative writing program. [1] It was published by Viking in hardback and by Penguin in paperback, and was translated into 13 languages, including French, Turkish, and Hebrew. [2] [3] The Chicago Tribune wrote that it was "reminiscent of some of Philip Roth's zanier explorations of identity and sexuality." [4] Kirkus Reviews noted that it "combines the techniques of Thomas McGuane with bits of Lolita and The Picture of Dorian Gray." [5]
Nude Men is about a twenty-nine-year-old man who is sexually pursued by a "precocious 11-year-old... who makes Lolita look like a Girl Scout." [6]
The novel explores the man's horror at his own attraction, and recounts his efforts at resisting her persistent advances.