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Author:	Klaus Kertess	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Consortium Book Sales & Dist	ISBN-10:	1852424486
ISBN-13:	9781852424480	Subject:	--
Publication Year:	1997	Topic:	--
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Eight short stories about upper-middle-class gay men.
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Series:	Serpent's Tail High Risk Books,

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Height:	8.0 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	0.5 in.
Weight:	4.0 oz.

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Kertess's first fiction collection surveys the terrain where language and desire are lost in the search for identity. "South Brooklyn Casket Company is a very good work, Kertess's writing is both hermetic and startingly clear. He uses the one to illuminate the other to splendid effect". -- Edward Albee
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Conceptual constructions, mannered prose and a garish display of alliteration characterize this collection of eight short stories composed of the reflections of ennui-stricken, globe-trotting, upper-middle-class gay men. "Footnotes" consists of footnotes to a non-existent opera libretto involving the origin of woodwind instruments, wrestling, Greek mythology and space travel. Time and again, Kertess demonstrates his inability to resist the lure of repeated sound: "Rooms that sparkled with flawless, fulgent grace, lithe limbs leading my awkward ones into a merenge or a mambo; dark, dulcet eyes and crimson-crested smiles adorning flawless skin as succulent as an orchid...." Occasionally, Kertess melds his pretentious prose with the decidedly d?class?, as in the title story (which has no apparent connection to either South Brooklyn or a casket company), in which a man participates in meaningless sex in a sauna while pondering his mother. Loosely tying the collection together is the recurring figure of Peter, a bored jet-setting writer who appears in many of the tales. But neither narrative nor character are the point of Kertess's writing. He's playing the postmodern shell game with meaning. Unfortunately, he does it without humor or distinctive style. In "Short End," he writes: "Often meaning was completely erased by the autoerotic pleasure that the letters released in the wake of their wayward trails." Exactly, but it's not even that pleasurable. (June) Lopate Conceptual constructions, mannered prose and a garish display of alliteration characterize this collection of eight short stories composed of the reflections of ennui-stricken, globe-trotting, upper-middle-class gay men. "Footnotes" consists of footnotes to a non-existent opera libretto involving the origin of woodwind instruments, wrestling, Greek mythology and space travel. Time and again, Kertess demonstrates his inability to resist the lure of repeated sound: "Rooms that sparkled with flawless, fulgent grace, lithe limbs leading my awkward ones into a merenge or a mambo; dark, dulcet eyes and crimson-crested smiles adorning flawless skin as succulent as an orchid...." Occasionally, Kertess melds his pretentious prose with the decidedly d‚class‚, as in the title story (which has no apparent connection to either South Brooklyn or a casket company), in which a man participates in meaningless sex in a sauna while pondering his mother. Loosely tying the collection together is the recurring figure of Peter, a bored jet-setting writer who appears in many of the tales. But neither narrative nor character are the point of Kertess's writing. He's playing the postmodern shell game with meaning. Unfortunately, he does it without humor or distinctive style. In "Short End," he writes: "Often meaning was completely erased by the autoerotic pleasure that the letters released in the wake of their wayward trails." Exactly, but it's not even that pleasurable. (June) Publishers Weekly (05/19/1997)

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South Brooklyn Casket Company (High Risk Books)

Klaus Kertess

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Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	1852424486
Publication Date:	2000-05-01
Publisher:	Serpent's Tail

Pages:	125
Height:	0.3900 inches
Width:	5.0400 inches
Weight:	0.2600 pounds

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