Men and Apparitions, Lynne Tillman
Men and Apparitions, Lynne Tillman
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Men and Apparitions
A Novel

Author: Lynne Tillman

Narrator: Will Damron

Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/13/2018

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

The time is now, and Ezekiel Hooper Stark is thirty-eight. He's a cultural anthropologist, an ethnographer of family photographs, a wry speculator about images. From childhood, his own family's idiosyncrasies, perversities, and pathologies propel Zeke, until love lost sends him spiraling out of control in Europe. Back in the U.S.A., he finds unexpected solace in the image of a notable nineteenth-century relative, Clover Hooper Adams. Zeke embarks on a project, MEN IN QUOTES, focusing his anthropological lens on his own kind: the "New Man," born under the sign of feminism. All the old models of masculinity are broken. How are you different from your father? Zeke asks his male subjects. What do you expect from women? What does Zeke expect from himself? And what will the reader expect of Zeke—is he a Don Quixote, Holden Caulfield, Underground Man, or Stranger?

Kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic, comic, tragic, and philosophical, Men and Apparitions showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliantly original novelist but also as one of our most prominent contemporary thinkers on art, culture, and society.

About Lynne Tillman

Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; American Genius, A Comedy; and Men and Apparitions. Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965-1967, with photographs by Stephen Shore; Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Tillman is professor/writer-in-residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany, and lives in New York with bass player David Hofstra.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam on March 07, 2021

I read this since it was longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness prize. There are mixed reviews on Goodreads that can tell you more of what the book was about, while this is just my personal reaction. The book is the type of essay/fiction that I usually admire, but I felt Men and Apparitio......more

Goodreads review by Tonymess on March 02, 2021

Ezekiel Stark, a skeptic in his field, was promising. He studied small groups or areas of cultural concerns – family photographs, the basis of images, men. His dissertation pubbed by a university press, his gig in acadoomia was upped to associate professor. He walked the halls of academe, walked the......more

Goodreads review by Tommi on March 31, 2021

Two extended essays, one longer on photography and one shorter on masculinity, delivered through the sometimes jarring voice of Ezekiel, whose rambling overstays its welcome but whose complexity is also a nod toward Tillman’s ability to create multidimensional characters. The novel tends toward the......more

Goodreads review by Angela on October 31, 2019

I was so excited that someone wrote this book, about this exact character, talking about this exact set of themes. I learned a lot reading it - basically a very easy way to digest six lectures on photographic history. So it's great for that - the tiny bit of narrative thread and the process of charac......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on January 15, 2020

What constitutes a novel? Is it story, character, arcs, and development? Can it be more than just that? How does the novel as a form evolve and break free of its usual constraints? Should it? What does that look like? What can it look like? These are a lot of questions I don't necessarily have any a......more

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