Mitko (Miami University Press Fiction) by Garth Greenwell

Mitko (Miami University Press Fiction) by Garth Greenwell

Fiction. On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American newly arrived in a foreign city pays a young man for sex. Over the next months, as what at first seems an uncomplicated transaction deepens into something more intricate and unnerving, his discovery of the geography and griefs of an unfamiliar country is accompanied by the unfolding of Mitko's own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want. The story of a desire that grows increasingly ambivalent, poised between submission, need, and resentment, MITKO is a powerful meditation on the chances of history and privilege, on mutual predation, and on our inability to know with any certainty the natures of others or our own fugitive selves.

Greenwell, Garth: - Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. He lives in Iowa City.

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ISBN 13	9781450762144
ISBN 10	145076214X
Title	Mitko (Miami University Press Fiction)
Author	Garth Greenwell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Miami University Press
Year published	2011-06-01
Number of pages	96
Prizes	Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Debut Fiction) 2012, Commended for Triangle Awards (Debut Fiction) 2012
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