{"product_id":"margery-kempe-9781681374314","title":"Margery Kempe","description":"\u003cb\u003eLust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century woman and Jesus Christ.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1994, Robert Gl ck's \u003ci\u003eMargery Kempe \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the most provocative, poignant, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One, based on the first autobiography in English, the medieval \u003ci\u003eBook of Margery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e, is about a fifteenth-century woman from East Anglia, a visionary, a troublemaker, a pilgrim to the Holy Land, and an aspiring saint, and her love affair with Jesus. It is complicated. The other is about the author's own love for an alluring and elusive young American, L. It is complicated. Between these two \u003ci\u003eMargery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e, the novel, emerges as an unprecedented exploration of desire, devotion, abjection, and sexual obsession in the form of a novel like no other novel. Robert Gl ck's masterpiece bears comparison with the finest work of such writers as Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. This edition includes an essay by Gl ck about the creation of the book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etitled \"My Margery, Margery's Bob.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681374314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Robert Gluck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36665551650972,"sku":"9781681374314","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_26972590-ff80-4329-aecc-e5594c2897cd.jpg?v=1603909807","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/margery-kempe-9781681374314","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}