Missouri
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.75 (707 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1551523442 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
bonnybedlam said One book I tell all my friends to read. This is a peculiar book, the writing oddly dreamy and vague without a lot of interior insight into the character's minds, but the surreal feel made it incredibly powerful. The English poet is a deep, well developed character, while his stage robbing captor is largely a mystery to the reader. He's also a mystery to the poet whom he loves. Once the two meet, we don't learn anything about them that the other doesn't know, which made me feel more a part of the story. It takes a lot of thinking. Dreamy, Detached and Dry This is an odd book - a story about a English poet who lives a decadent life and a half-American Indian man who is taught to kill, steal and rob at a very early age. Eventually they meet up and, well, some sort of a relationship develops. The prose is dry and at times skeletal. As I read the book I often found myself losing the visual image I had of the story, which rarely happens to me. At the story's end, I cared as much for the characters as I did at the beginning, that is, very little.
With surprises around each turn of the plot, this beautiful love story shows two totally opposite and very memorable characters who grow more and more alike throughout their relationship. Wunnicke's writing is just enough; each segment of her novel is sublimely considered and executed." —Attitude"Douglas Fortescue is a vaunted British poet and aesthete forced to flee to mid-1800s America with his brother after an Oscar Wildean scandal; orphaned Joshua Jenkyns is a wild-lad outlaw terrorizing the Midwest while carrying in his saddlebags Fortescue's collections of poetry - enigmatic words that speak to the boy's unarticulated sexual longings. The usual point of comparison with prose featuring cowboys is Brokeback Mountain, but Missouri is not really anything like the now infamous
Douglas Fortescue is a successful poet who flees England for America following a scandal; Joshua Jenkins is a feral young outlaw who was taught how to shoot a man at age six. The two men meet when Joshua robs Douglas’ carriage and takes him hostage; soon, a remarkable secret is revealed, and these two very different men grow closer, even as Douglas’ brother tries to “save” him from his uncivilized surroundings.First published in Germany, Missouri is available in English for the first time.. This earnest, violent, yet utterly transfixing gay love s