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Kispert, Peter.
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Gay men -- Identity -- Fiction.
Deception -- Fiction.
Intimacy (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Kispert, Peter.
Gay men -- Identity -- Fiction.
Deception -- Fiction.
Intimacy (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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I
know
you
know
who
I
am
:
stories
/ Peter Kispert.
by
Kispert, Peter.
Penguin Books, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION KIS
Subjects
Gay men -- Identity -- Fiction.
Deception -- Fiction.
Intimacy (Psychology) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780143134282 (trade pbk.)
Description:
226 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents:
I
know
you
know
who
I
am
-- Puncture -- River is to ocean as__Is to heart -- Human resources -- Aim for the heart -- Audition -- How to live your best life -- Please hold -- Be alive -- Breathing underwater Signs -- Rorschach -- Goldfish bowl -- Diving, drifting -- Master's Thesis -- Touch pool -- Clearwater -- Tourniquet -- In the palm of his hand -- Double edge -- Mooring.
Summary:
"In the linked and tightly thematic
stories
of
I
KNOW
YOU
KNOW
WHO
I
AM
, Kispert explores deception, performance, and the uneasiness of reconciling a queer identity with the wider world, with characters
who
try to navigate that dissonance by acting like another person for someone else. Throughout the collection we meet gay characters
who
have created sometimes elaborate falsehoods and
who
now must cope with the way that those deceptions eat at the very fabric of their lives and relationships. In the title story, the protagonist, desperate to save a love affair on the rocks, hires an actor to play an invented friend during an arranged meeting with his boyfriend; in "Aim for the Heart", the main character's lies about a hunting habit have left him with an unexpected deer carcass and the need to parse unsettling high school memories; in "Mooring", a trip back to the protagonist's unexpectedly dilapidated childhood home reveals the ways that he has warped the truth in his current relationship when describing his feelings about his father. Throughout the book, moments of deception collide with moments of high-stakes and at times hyper-real performance, creating a stunning portrait of queer characters searching for paths to intimacy and attempting to deal with their own vulnerability.
I
KNOW
YOU
KNOW
WHO
I
AM
is a densely woven collection about emotional damage in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill's BAD BEHAVIOR". --Publisher.
Genre:
Short
stories
.
Psychological fiction.
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Adult Fiction
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