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HB/DC--near new - dustcover/like new //near new - text /like new/--1983---first edition stated---very minor shelf wear---xlibr/card jacket removed--excl. copy---skuf60
- Sales Rank: #325526 in Books
- Published on: 1984
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 306 pages
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
One of the best books of the 1980s—still great
By bridgman@juno.com
I work in a bookstore. One reason customers return books is that they take them home, start reading them, and then realize that they’d already read them a few years ago. I myself have books lying around that I’m not sure I’ve read or not. Not remembering whether or not you've read a book doesn’t say much good about the book—it’s literally forgettable.
That was never true with T. Gerler’s Elbowing the Seducer. I read it in 1987, three years after it was published (it takes place in New York City, in 1980), and even now, three decades later, remembered whole sentences, at times with complete accuracy, and I am not the type who does that. I just finished rereading it. I was a little wary of doing so. My memory of it was so positive. Did I want to risk that and find that it was shallow and dumb, a relic from that decade?
I took the risk and reread it. The prose holds up. T. Gertler (the T is for Trudy) writes with such insight and wit that the novel, which is in part about writing and what we should expect from authors, brims with genius and is often hilarious. If you ever plan to write fiction or poetry, you must read pages 48 - 52.
This is a book to read slowly, to savor the sentences. You can open any page and find a passage with details that put you in the same Manhattan location as its characters. You’re in an office, on a city street, in a bookstore, a bedroom, a dinner table eating dessert after an awkward meal:
The goblet set before Howard held a puddle of beige ice cream in which slivers of chocolate and almonds floated. His dessert spoon, someone else’s heirloom acquired at a country auction, rested in this mire, beaming someone else’s initial like a distress signal.
You're also often in a bed or, once, a shower, having sex. Most sex scenes in books are awful and tell you little about the characters. That’s not the case here.
From Michiko Kakutani’s review in the New York Times of May 7, 1984:
[T]his first novel represents the debut of an enormously gifted writer, a writer who possesses an assured and distinctive voice, as well as a finely honed ability to delineate the sexual and literary politics of the New York writing community with both humor and verve. Miss Gertler seems to notice everything, from the balding velvet on a young artist's jacket cuffs to the German shepherd swimming, amid miniature aircraft carriers, in the boat pond in Central Park. In addition, she demonstrates an unerring ear for gently satirizing the commingled syllables of High Art and street savvy that pass for conversation in certain Manhattan circles.
The smug, insular world of this literary community, of course, has been documented in the past, and the two central male characters in ''Elbowing'' - Howard, the philandering editor, and his friend and rival, the critic Newman Sykes - may also seem familiar to us from such novels as Philip Roth's ''My Life as a Man'' and John Updike's ''Bech Is Back.'' Certainly their type is easily recognizable - men who pledge their hearts to the goddess of literature and their bodies to less lofty pursuits, men who find it amusing to sign the hotel register ''V. and V. Nabokov'' while conducting an adulterous affair.
What distinguishes ''Elbowing'' is that it is told from the point of view of a ''spectator'' ''at the literary circus,'' who happens to be a woman. And in the course of the book, Dina Reeve matures from a wide-eyed apprentice, vulnerable to the literary and sexual judgments of her mentors, into a determined novelist, fully capable of avenging herself in print. While it becomes clear that her former lovers - the hapless critic and editor - will never be more than midwives to literature, she stands poised on the brink of becoming an artist.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
didn't love it but that doesn't mean everyone would feel that way
By HHB
Personally I found this book really, really annoying. It started off so well - and descended into a murky mess where the narrative was following at least four men and two women, but a new section would start saying "He . . . blah blah blah" or "She . . . blah blah blah" and you'd have to look half or three quarters of the way down the page to which out which particular he or she was the focus this time, and I didn't personally think there was anything gained by not identifying the character more quickly. I wanted to know what was going to happen to the characters so I kept reading but at the end I thought maybe my instinct to throw it against the wall halfway through might have been more satisfying. This book does seem dated - it was published in 1984 although I would have thought it was published in the 70s, could have been written in the 70s of course. I guess overall I'm just so disappointed between what to me felt like so much promise at the start of the book to get to know or observe or comprehend a character I have nothing in common with and feeling at the end that none of the characters seemed believable at all, even though the two writer characters were both writing thinly disguised versions of their lives and of other characters in the book - making you wonder if the author hadn't used a similar practice. But then why would they feel so phony?
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