Margery Kempe

Robert Gl ck

Margery Kempe
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Country
United States
Published
10 March 2020
Pages
176
ISBN
9781681374314

Margery Kempe

Robert Gl ck

Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus Christ.

Margery Kempe is a tale of romantic obsession. It chronicles two relationships which take place in disparate worlds, separated by five centuries. The failed saint Margery Kempe lived in the fifteenth century, when she wrote what is believed to be the first autobiography. In Robert Gl ck’s Margery Kempe, the author’s love for a young man, L., frames the story of Kempe’s mythical sexual desire and emotional passion for Jesus.

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