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News Wed Jun 24 2009
Chicago Authors Know How to Write a Threesome
The Guardian asked novelist Ewan Morrison, author of Menage, to pick the Top Ten Literary Threesomes. His list includes not one, but two Chicago authors. In at #1, the Top Literary Threesome Ever, is Oak Park native Ernest Hemingway with The Garden of Eden, a novel that "tells the story of an author, his adventurous wife, and the psycho-sexual games they play while sharing a young woman. It is largely held to be autobiographical." University of Chicago alum Susan Sontag comes in at #7 with The Volcano Lover, a historical fiction revolving around Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma and Vice Admiral Horation Nelson. Apparently, Chicago authors know how to write the sexy. (Of course, we already knew that.)
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Our first book of 2010 is described as "a comic, tragic masterpiece of an American family breaking down in an age of easy fixes." The Corrections is the winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction.
Pete / June 25, 2009 12:26 PM
It's quite a stretch calling Hemingway and Sontag "Chicago authors", based solely on their relatively brief associations with the city. Was Saul Bellow a Montreal author? Was Theodore Dreiser a Terre Haute author?