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The Mad Man

Samuel R. Delany

Paperback | Pages: 520 pages

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Title	:	The Mad Man
Author	:	Samuel R. Delany
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 520 pages
Published	:	May 7th 2002 by Voyant Pub (first published June 28th 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. Gay. Literature. GLBT. Queer

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For his thesis, graduate student John Marr researches the life and work of the brilliant Timothy Hassler: philosopher whose career was cut tragically short over a decade earlier. Marr encounters numerous obstacles, as other researchers turn up evidence of Hassler's personal life that is deemed simply too unpleasant and disillusioning for the rarified air of academe. On another front, Marr finds himself increasingly drawn toward more shocking, depraved sexual entanglements with the homeless men of his neighborhood, until it begins to seem that Hassler's death might hold some key to his own life as a gay man in the age of AIDS. As John Marr learns more about the enigma that was Timothy Hassler, his own increasing sexual debasement leads him to a point where his and the philosopher's lives collide violently.…

Surely Samuel R. Delany's most graphic and unsettling novel, The Mad Man is a provocative look at contemporary social and sexual outsiders.

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0966599845 (ISBN13: 9780966599848)

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only the dirtiest book ever.

I probably shouldn't review this baby or my GR friends will start getting the idea that a whole lot of the stuff I read is just a kind of creepy tourism - let's check out the grossest stuff ever and let's crack open a tube of Scruttock's Old Dirigible and have a good old grossfest with many involuntary shouts of ech! ach! urch! and oh hey, you gotta read this bit - here - oh, man! - that kind of thing. Followed by a double bill of Pasolini's Salo and von Trier's Antichrist.But no, I am much more

Nowhere near as intelligent as the Marquis's monstrosities, nor as sexy as any of Tom of Finland's drawings. This is indeed a self-proclaimed underdog, as it insists in being grotesque & antiromantic, unintelligent & v. v. verrrry redundant. There's absolutely no charm here!The story tells of an uberkinky student who partakes in disgusting acts with the hobos of the streets of NYC. Tackling incredibly difficult issues (S&M, homelessness, homosexuality) and doing not much with them is

I'm with others who reviewed here like Camille Acey - this is a big challenge to read in some respects because there's no way not to confront your issues about a host of interconnected and volatile issues but that's the point of the book and the skill of the writing is such that there's no escape into intellectualism or down any of those roads. One of the better and more interesting human development journeys I've been vicariously on, though I have to confess I'm glad it was vicarious.

Amazing, just amazing. It's filthier than every John Waters movie squeezed into one and still very sexy and loving. It's about this watersports enthusiast who's trying to write the biography of this gay philosopher foot-fetishist. Not so much sci-fi but pretty out of this world all the same. The philosophy is heavy, the play sessions spectacular and the writing just very engrossing.

This is a difficult book to read and to review. Equal parts academic murder mystery, philosophical rumination, 1980s New York City nostalgia, exposition on urban homeless culture, and catalog of fringe sexual fetishes, I found it alternately compelling and repellent. I'll confess to skimming over some sections consisting of lengthy, lovingly detailed descriptions of sexual practices that don't interest me. Meanwhile, the non-sexual passages were very compelling, and as well-wrought as any prose

Just what is Delany? Poet...Philosopher...Pornographer? Hell if I know. More reading is required, but not before dinner.There will be no review of this book, other than the star rating.