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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0670033448
ISBN-13: 9780670033447
Sep 2004
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
418 pages
BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN
Language: English |
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Synopsis
As he did in THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, T. C. Boyle turns to the odd fringes of American history in THE INNER CIRCLE, this time taking the notorious Alfred Kinsey as his subject. The Kinsey Reports, released in the middle of the 20th century, interviewed hundreds of American men and women about premarital sex, homosexuality, masturbation, and other shocking issues--and their findings revolutionized sexual attitudes. In Boyle's novel, a young man named John Milk is a student at Indiana University when he goes to work for Kinsey and becomes deeply involved not only in the study but in Kinsey's life. As seen through the increasingly less innocent eyes of Milk, Kinsey is portrayed as both a wild-eyed dreamer and a depraved monster. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.
| Details | | Series: | BOYLE, T. CORAGHESSAN |
| Size | | Length: | 418 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 23.2 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Looking back on it now, I don't think I was ever actually "sex shy" (to use one of Prok's pet phrases), but I'll admit I was pretty naïve when I first came to him, not to mention hopelessly dull and conventional. I don't know what he saw in me, really--or perhaps I do."
Industry Reviews
"[R]angy, entertaining....The best things here are the searching, genuinely complex characterizations of its two protagonists...."
Kirkus (06/01/2004)
"[Boyle] maintains his mix of irony and emotional fidelity with buoyant wit. In the end, the novel can be read as a case study of the price paid by ordinary human beings when they become the apostles to men of genius."
Publishers Weekly (07/05/2004)
"THE INNER CIRCLE may draw readers in because of its sexy subject matter...but they will stay for the emotional punch of Boyle's meditations on love, marriage and jealousy. Although this highly readable novel is very much about sex in both its clinical and its private aspects..., its deeper subject is love and the challenge that sexual liberation poses to monogamy....Milk's memoir is not just about Kinsey; it is a meditation on how Kinsey's project affects Milk; his wife, Iris; and by extension American culture....[A] captivating and emotionally compelling exploration of a key chapter in American cultural history."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Kate Washington (09/12/2004)
"Kinsey...is in some ways a perfect subject for this sly and intrepid novelist. While I would hesitate to burden an imagination as marvelously peripatetic as Boyle's with anything so confining as an overarching theme, he has more than once cast a skeptical eye on a peculiarly American reformist impulse--a desire to cast aside artificial social arrangements and constraints and to perfect human nature itself."
New York Times Book Review - A. O. Scott (09/19/2004)
"...Boyle has written a thoroughly researched, entertaining, wonderfully readable, and...very fair account of Kinsey and his crew....We end up feeling that for all his obvious flaws, Kinsey is both endearing and heroic."
Bookforum - Geoff Nicholson
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