Gould
Subtitle: A Novel in Two Novels
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: February 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780805044249
Subjects: Psychology; Dixon, Stephen - Prose & Criticism; Fiction - General; Fiction; Sexual behavior; General; Black humor (Literature); Men
Description: In his new book, Gould, Dixon draws a portrait of a man through his romantic and sexual involvements, as well as one of modern American life over the last forty years. The novel is itself a series of portraits, something like a retrospective of years of self-portraits, which chart with telling accuracy all the emotional, physical, and sexual changes Gould undergoes.

By turns comic and deeply touching, Gould shows Dixon at his finest: a bravura performance delineating the leaping arc of love - and, all too often, the miscarriage of that love - that is part and parcel of the arc of the life of a representative modern man.