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Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon
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lukas
, December 29, 2014
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Tom Spanbauer influenced a generation of Portland writers with his "dangerous" writing (Danger!Danger!) classes and the groups they spawned. Those who were associated with him include Chuck Palahniuk, Cheryl "Wild" Strayed, Chelsea Cain, and Monica Drake. The first book of his I read, "Faraway Places" wasn't dangerous at all, but this bloody, sexy, episodic western is more like it. It's like Tom Robbins and Cormac McCarthy got in a horrible accident and their brains now share a body and they took some peyote in a cave and wrote this book. Or something like that. Spanbauer flips the western inside out and grills it over an open fire, tackling sex, gender, race, violence, and more sex. There's more sex than you can shake a sexy stick at, including homo, hetero, underage, and, hey, incest. While I appreciate a modern take on the western, the book was just sloppy and soggy (with bodily fluids) with a bit of a freewheeling, new age-y spirit that I found distasteful. It was pretty dangerous though. Perhaps the title was inspired by Mishima's "The Sailor who Fell From Grace with the Sea." Or perhaps not. Other modern takes on the western: most of McCarthy's books, "True Grit," "Ghost Town" (Coover), "Little Big Man," "The Brothers Sisters," "Confederate General at Big Sur," "Butcher's Crossing."
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E S Pittenger
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“If you’re the devil, then it’s not me telling this story.” is the first line of this novel. The author’s credo is to write dangerously. The book’s contents are full of brutality, beauty, love, sex, death and life. Dense, rich, and vivid is the story of stories, the human-being tellings that unfold in this novel. Dazzling is probably the best adjective to describe the novel, since my mind feels like it’s looked directly at the sun while I’m reading about the moon. The narrator is Shed, aka, Duivichi-un-Dua, a half-breed berdache (Indian word for 'holy man who fucks with men') who lives and whores at the Indian Head Hotel in not so Excellent, Idaho, a town nestled in the shadow of Not-Really-a-Mountain. Shed pursues killdeer, the concept of staying hidden and secret, and the tangled skeins of the story about who his father might be. "Being killdeer" allows Shed to engage in his hobby: scrutinizing. Love and acceptance, the freedom to be who you are is what Ida Richelieu, the madam and owner of the shocking pink hotel who wears blue when she ovulates, believes in. “Oh, the humanity,” is one of her favorite sayings and one that encompasses what this book is about. Shed believes the green-eyed Dellwood Barker is his father. Dellwood may be more important than a father, he is a philosopher. He tells Shed the story of what it means to be alive. . . "Smoke and wind and fire are all things you can feel but can't touch. Memories and dreams are like that too. They're what this world is made up of. There's really only a very short time that we get hair and teeth and put on red cloth and have bones and skin and look out eyes. Not for long. Some folks longer than others. If you're lucky, you'll get to be the one who tells the story: how the eyes have seen, the hair has blown, the caress the skin has felt, how the bones have ached. What the human heart is like. How the devil called and we did not answer. How we answered." Spanbauer has written a tale that exposes intolerance set against a pansexual West, unknown to Hollywood depictions. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon is a novel in which the characters (and the reader) are entangled in a struggle to find out the answer to the questions of what makes family, are there limits to love, and how does one set the self (after it’s been identified) free. Freedom is what the devil would deny us and this is a book that does battle with the devil.
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TLKempner
, January 23, 2010
It is erotic, intriguing, twists and turns and you can never anticipate what happens next. Tom Spanbauer has the most incredible imagination and depth to his words. The visual images leave you breathless.
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rareform1010
, January 14, 2010
I've been reading this book for almost three years, weaving back and forth, because I'm in love with Shed.
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paul sorenson
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this early book by Portland author Spanbauer certainly fits the "rollicking good read" phrase - but it is more than that - it is also a thoughtful (though undeniably fun) consideration of identity (gender, family, self) and the effects of religious repression on a small town. The characters are great - several I wish I knew now - and the story very compelling and full of action. I was pretty emotionally bound up in the story and wanted it to keep going.
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Product Details
ISBN:
9780060974978
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/09/1992
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pages:
368
Height:
.90IN
Width:
5.32IN
Thickness:
.75
Number of Units:
1
Publication Country:
United States
Copyright Year:
1992
Series Volume:
v.7-8
UPC Code:
2800060974970
Author:
Tom Spanbauer
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Subject:
Indians of North America -- Fiction.
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Bildungsromane.
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Western stories
Subject:
Indians of north america
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