Full name: Men and Apparitions: A Novel

Author: Lynne Tillman Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781593766795 1593766793

We are the Picture People. I name us Picture People because most special and obvious about the species is, our kind lives on and for pictures, lives as and for images, our species takes pictures, makes pix, thinks in pix. What is behind the human drive to create, remake, and keep images from and of everything? What does it mean that we now live in a -glut of images?- Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our era through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, specialist in family photographs. As Ezekiel progresses from a child obsessed with his family's photo albums to young and passionate researcher to a man devastated by betrayal in love, his academic fascinations determine and reflect his course, touching on such various subjects as discarded images, pet pictures, spirit mediums, the tragic life of his long-dead cousin the semi-famous socialite Clover Adams, and the nature of contemporary masculinity. Kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic, madcap and wry, this book showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliantly original novelist but as one of our most prominent thinkers on culture and visual culture today. Similar books: Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman Motion Sickness by Lynne Tillman Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 2666 by Roberto Bolano Buying the Farm by Kimberly Conn Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver Harbor of the Heart by Katherine Spencer We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates Everyman by Philip Roth The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton South of Broad by Pat Conroy Old School by Tobias Wolff The Big Free by Martha B. Boone The Risk Pool by Richard Russo Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle