You Don't Love This Man (39 page)
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Authors: Dan Deweese
Ways of Seeing
, by John Berger
Now that we are ensconced in the info-and media-centric world of the great twenty-first century, this nonfiction book based on a series of television shows that aired on the BBC in the 1970s should be dated and obsolete. Berger won the Booker Prize for the fantastic novel
G
., but every year, I watch students go home to read
Ways of Seeing
, and return a few days later surprised to discover that a slim little book, half of which is pictures, offers so many strategies for describing men, women, the images we make, and what we say about each other in those images.
The Counterlife
, by Philip Roth
The Counterlife
is the tour de force of a mindâRoth'sâthat not only senses the manifold potentials bound up in any constellation of characters, but can then play those potentials out, with and against one another. Reading this novel is like watching a person play multiple games of chess simultaneously, and win them all. And here's the kicker: after that overheated description, it's also true to say that each section of this book reads fairly straightforwardly, and includes some good laughs.
Dan DeWeese
teaches writing at Portland State University. His fiction has appeared in
Tin House, New England Review, Washington Square,
and other publications. In 2009, he created
Propeller,
an art, film, and literature quarterly magazine, for which he serves as editor in chief.
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Cover design by Milan Bozic
Cover illustrations by Marika Kandelaki
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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YOU DON'T LOVE THIS MAN
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FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
DeWeese, Dan.
You don't love this man: a novel / Dan DeWeese.â1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-199232-2
I. Title.
PS3604.E9Y68 2011
813'.6âdc22
2010024949
EPub Edition © January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-203697-1
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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