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Margery Kempe / by Robert Glück ; introduction by Colm Toibin.

By:

Glück, Robert, (1947-)

Contributor(s):

Toibin, Colm, (, 1955-)

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New york review books classicsPublication details: New York : New York Review Books , c1994, 2020Description: xviii, 170 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9781681374314 (paperback)

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

FIC GLU

LOC classification:

PS3557.L82 M37 2020

Summary: Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus Christ. Margery Kempe is a tale of romantic obsession. It chronicles two relationships which take place in disparate worlds, separated by five centuries. The failed saint Margery Kempe lived in the fifteenth century, when she wrote what is believed to be the first autobiography. In Robert Glück's Margery Kempe, the author's love for a young man, L., frames the story of Kempe's mythical sexual desire and emotional passion for Jesus.

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Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC GLU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		046345

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Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus Christ. Margery Kempe is a tale of romantic obsession. It chronicles two relationships which take place in disparate worlds, separated by five centuries. The failed saint Margery Kempe lived in the fifteenth century, when she wrote what is believed to be the first autobiography. In Robert Glück's Margery Kempe, the author's love for a young man, L., frames the story of Kempe's mythical sexual desire and emotional passion for Jesus.