Swoon (Granary) (GRANARY BOOKS) - Softcover

Gordon, Nada; Sullivan, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1887123547 ISBN 13: 9781887123549

Publisher: Granary Books, 2001

Synopsis

Culled from more than 5,000 pages of e-mail, Swoon is a true story of two writers who meet and fall in love over the internet. It is autobiography, poetry, literary essay and erotica all rolled into one. Revealing the tenacity of love, this correspondence takes place between Nada Gordon, an expatriate in Tokyo, and Gary Sullivan in New York, who finally meet in the "real" world with mixed reactions followed by a Hollywood ending. It is Heloise and Abelard without the tragedy, the troubadors without inequality, and the Brownings without euphemisim--all facilitated by the immediate intimacy of cybercommunication.

About this title

About the Author:

Gary Sullivan is the author of four previous books, including "How to Proceed in the Arts" (Faux Press, 2001) and "The New Life" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001). His writing has been anthologized in "The Gertrude Stein Awards 1994-1995".

From Publishers Weekly:

But the duo's tour-de-force is surely Swoon, an electronic literary courtship that spirals into real life in a manner Griffin & Sabine never manage. In March of 1998, Nada posted a query on a poetry discussion list, and Gary replied "backchannel," asking if she were the same person who went by "gordon" and lived in San Francisco years earlier. Amid Sullivan's disintegrating marriage in New York and Gordon's failing Tokyo relationship, the two produced the equivalent of 5,000 manuscript pages over the course of a year as they traded quips, seductions, likes and dislikes, ideas about aesthetics, sexual preferences, photos, poems and poetry gossip, worries, fears and neuroses, plans for visits and the failure of love at first sight and its aftermath. It makes for the most true-to-life literary love story since Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett hit Florence.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Granary Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1887123547
• ISBN 13: 9781887123549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312