Go the Way Your Blood Beats

On Truth and Desire

Michael Amherst (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

138 Seiten

2015
Repeater Books (Verlag)
978-1-910924-71-6 (ISBN)

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Can you ever really know where desire will take you? And is it possible to label sexual desire simply as straight or gay?

Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire.

A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised, it is a meditation on desire's unknowability. Interwoven with anonymous addresses to past loves - the sex of whom remain obscure - the book demonstrates the universalism of human desire.

Part essay, part memoir, part love letter, Go the Way Your Blood Beats asks us to see desire and sexuality as analogous with art - a mysterious, creative force.

Michael Amherst is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. His work has been published internationally, including in the Guardian, New Statesman, the Spectator, The White Review and Contrappasso magazine. He was shortlisted for the 2012 Bridport Prize and longlisted for the 2014 BBC Opening Lines and 2015 Bath Short Story Prize. His work has also featured at Stroud Short Stories, the inaugural London LitCrawl and the Accidental Festival at London's Roundhouse. He graduated from the University of East Anglia's prestigious Creative Writing MA in 2007 and is currently a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2018
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 197 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-910924-71-7 / 1910924717
ISBN-13	978-1-910924-71-6 / 9781910924716
Zustand	Neuware