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Œuvres de Adam Mars-Jones

Monopolies of Loss (1992) 140 exemplaires
Pied-de-mouche (2006) 125 exemplaires
Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction (1983) — Directeur de publication — 123 exemplaires
Waters of Thirst (1993) 98 exemplaires
Box Hill (2020) 74 exemplaires
Lantern Lecture and Other Stories (1981) 72 exemplaires
Cedilla (2011) 48 exemplaires
Noriko Smiling (2011) 21 exemplaires
Batlava Lake (2021) 13 exemplaires
Blind bitter happiness (1997) 8 exemplaires
Fabrications (1981) 8 exemplaires
Venus Envy (1990) 7 exemplaires
Fulfilment 4 exemplaires
Caret (2023) 3 exemplaires
Neighbours 1 exemplaire
Slim 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Pictures from an Institution (1954) — Introduction, quelques éditions460 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1989) — Contributeur — 429 exemplaires
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (1992) — Contributeur — 319 exemplaires
Mr. Fortune's Maggot; and The Salutation [New York Review Classics edition] (2001) — Introduction, quelques éditions221 exemplaires
Granta 86: Film (2004) — Contributeur — 205 exemplaires
Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2 (1993) — Contributeur — 177 exemplaires
Granta 27: Death (1989) — Contributeur — 151 exemplaires
Granta 55: Children (1996) — Contributeur — 130 exemplaires
Granta 22: With Your Tongue Down My Throat (1987) — Contributeur — 129 exemplaires
Granta 75: Brief Encounters (2001) — Contributeur — 124 exemplaires
Granta 38: We're So Happy! (1991) — Contributeur — 113 exemplaires
Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists (1983) — Contributeur — 91 exemplaires
Granta 19: More Dirt (1986) — Contributeur — 76 exemplaires
Granta 14: Autobiography (1984) — Contributeur — 71 exemplaires
The Stately Homo: A Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crisp (2000) — Contributeur — 58 exemplaires
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories (1996) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
Best Short Stories 1992 (1992) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Strijdgewoel: verhalen over mannen (1996) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1954-10-26
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
London, England, UK
Lieux de résidence
London, England, UK
Virginia, USA
Études
Westminster School, London, England, UK
University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall)
University of Virginia
Professions
Professor (University of Virginia ∙ Creative Writing)
film critic
Prix et distinctions
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1993)
Agent
PFD, Drury House
Courte biographie
Writer and critic Adam Mars-Jones was born in London in 1954. Educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he studied and then taught Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. He was film critic for The Independent between 1986 and 1997 and for The Times between 1998 and 2000.

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On a trip out to Box Hill in Surrey on his eighteenth birthday in summer 1975, plump, insecure Colin trips over the cool, sophisticated biker Ray. Something prompts him to answer Ray's rhetorical "What am I going to do with you?" with "Anything you like," and before Colin knows quite what is happening, he's on the back of Ray's Norton, setting out on an unexpected new career as a sex-slave in the suburban hinterland of Hampton Court palace.

Although the relationship between Ray and Colin is clearly very unequal and exploitative, and it doesn't end happily, when it ends it does, counterintuitively, leave Colin more at ease with who he is and what he wants out of life. He is in a position to build a new, happy life for himself. This in contrast to Colin's father, whose similarly dependent relationship with Colin's mother drives him into a spiral of mental breakdown.

Fun because of all the nice period detail about bikers and sex in the seventies, before everyone got hung up on motorcycle safety and AIDS, but the plot felt a bit facile.
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thorold | 2 autres critiques | Jul 25, 2021 |
Basically a downer about a relationship between a biker fanboy and a biker. I enjoyed it enough to finish it. It's a depressing character study about someone with no self esteem who gets into what's basically an abusive relationship. Good times!
 
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bostonbibliophile | 2 autres critiques | Jul 1, 2021 |
I thought I'd read this back in 2011 when it came out, but I picked it up off the shelf recently and noticed a bookmark half way through. I love Ozu and I like the idea of throwing off the weight of accepted criticism and taking a "layman" approach to analysing one of his best films. Why would I have given up on such a short book about a subject I find fascinating?

I suspect it's because Mars-Jones' forensic dissection of every single shot in the film eventually begins to suck all the life out of it. This approach offers occasional insights but a lot of the time it's the text equivalent of an Arnold Schwarzenegger DVD commentary: "Here's Noriko. She comes into the house. She's upset but she's hiding it. She avoids her father's eyes and goes upstairs..." and on and on. You can almost see him checking the word count, sighing, and adding one more paragraph about hankies.

It's not all bad, and it provides some interesting background on the conditions in which the film was made and the general history of Japanese cinema. I think I'll stick with the critics in future though.
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0ldScratch | 1 autre critique | May 24, 2021 |
The second instalment of John Cromer's life story picks up where the first left off, with our youthful white British suburban Hindu starting his A-Level studies. Unfortunately, this continuation of the school career is very much more of the same thing covered at length in the first volume and it gets a bit dull.

Things liven up considerably when Cromer goes off to India on a spiritual quest, then upon returning heads to Downs College, Cambridge where life proves to be neither easy nor stereotypical and being a wheel chair user makes one prone to being kidnapped, exploited and dropped down stairs...

We're left on a bit of a physical and emotional cliff-hanger and who knows when a Volume 3 might appear to tell us where John and his adapted Mini might go next?
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Arbieroo | 1 autre critique | Jul 17, 2020 |

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