Fetish lives
Subtitle: stories
By: Gail Jones.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: George Braziller
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Fiction
Description: In this arresting and richly imaginative collection of twelve stories. Gail Jones explores the role of obsession the inescapable loves and torments she calls fetishes - in the lives of both the famous and the ordinary. Structured around a series of lyrical echoes and repeated images, her stories weave fact and speculation to recreate little-known events in the lives of such figures as Marcel Proust, Walt Whitman, and Elvis Presley that may have motivated their art and obsessed them as individuals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-178).
Originally published: South Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1997.