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\u003cp\u003eNominated for the 2010 Stonewall Book Award, the oldest book award given for outstanding achievement in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Literature\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman is haunted by the atrocities committed by her husband, and makes a heart-wrenching decision about atonement; secret fears and unspoken desires reveal the profound ambivalence at the heart of an interracial couple's relationship; a Jamaican man mourns his friend's death at the hands of anti-gay vigilantes; and two extraordinary young men escape the horrors of slavery when they leave their bodies behind on the Middle Passage.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown for his courageous explorations into the heavily mined territories of race and sexuality, Thomas Glave offers a series of profound portraits of the traumas of war, the ravages of homophobia and racism, and the ultimate triumph of desire.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Torturer's Wife\u003c/em\u003e is one of the most interesting American books I have read. . . . a literary text that incites the reader to become a conscious and seduced re-reader.\"\u0026mdash;Juan Goytisolo, \u003cem\u003eThe Marx Family Saga\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Glave's disruption of form is a powerful metaphor for sexual, racial and geopolitical disjunctions. Glave is a gifted stylist . . . blessed with ambition, his own voice and an impressive willingness to dissect how individuals actually think and behave.\"\u0026mdash;\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Thomas Glave walks the path of such greats in American literature as Richard Wright and James Baldwin . . .\"\u0026mdash;Gloria Naylor, \u003cem\u003eThe Women Of Brewster Place\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Glave is a brilliant writer of startingly fresh prose . . . his stories are intricate tapestries of life rendered through a triumphant act of the imagination.\"\u0026mdash;Clarence Major, \u003cem\u003eMy Amputations\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Glave is an O. Henry award-winning author and was named a Village Voice Writer on the Verge in 2001. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWhose Song? and Other Stories\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWords to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent\u003c/em\u003e (winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction) and editor of \u003cem\u003eOur Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles\u003c/em\u003e. He has taught at the State University of New York at Binghamton and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u003c/p\u003e |
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