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Obsession takes over two lives: one brazenly, the other more sneakily in this witty black comedy of lust, academia, and Southern manners. When bachelor history professor, Max Finster, arrives in the university community of Oxford, Mississippi, and moves in next door to Don and Susan Shapiro, all of their lives head for dramatic change. Narrator Don, a professor of English, gradually becomes fascinated by Max, his mysterious past, polymathic mind, chameleon personality and strange sexual agenda. Max gets busy ravishing a series of obese women, each larger than the previous one, as Don theorizes and looks on, sometimes literally, via a peephole he has drilled through the apartment wall. This sordid activity is set against a panorama of outwardly wholesome college life, but Don’s insider perspective digs beneath the facades both of professorial pretense and the institutionalized civility of the South. First-time novelist Galef, himself a tenured professor , writes knowingly of the academic scene, sparing no one, and sheds a whole new light on the subtleties of male bonding.
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From Publishers Weekly Obsession takes over two lives?one brazenly, the other more sneakily?in this witty black comedy of lust, academia and Southern manners. When bachelor history professor Max Finster arrives in the university community of Oxford, Miss., he moves in next door to Don and Susan Shapiro, and all of their lives are headed for dramatic change. Narrator Don, a professor of English, gradually becomes fascinated by Max, his mysterious past, polymathic mind, chameleon personality and strange sexual agenda. Max gets busy ravishing a series of obese women, each larger than the previous one, as Don theorizes and looks on?sometimes literally, via a peephole he has drilled through the apartment wall. This sordid activity is set against a panorama of outwardly wholesome college life, but Don's insider perspective digs beneath the facades both of professiorial pretense and the institutionalized civility of the South. First-novelist Galef, himself a tenured professor (he also has published short stories and nonfiction articles), writes knowingly of the academic scene, sparing no one, and sheds a whole new light on the subtleties of male bonding. His funny, insightful narrative is peppered with wonderfully erudite diction and literary conceits. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal This satirical novel chronicles the "great fleshly quest" of Max, a teacher whose outrageous sexual behavior involves portly women. Max arrives in Mississippi to teach history at Ole Miss and rents an apartment next to the narrator, Don, and his wife. Don, an English professor, becomes entangled with Max's clandestine behavior as he craftily constructs a peephole in Max's bedroom. Max romances women in great numbers until he meets his fantasy, a 400-pound Brunhild named Maxine, who becomes involved in Max's bizarre death. Although the plot stretches into the absurd, Galef's story raises serious questions about our culture's obsession with bodies. Galef's candid reflections on Southern culture, his entertaining lampoon of academic manners, and his supporting characters are as uproarious and engaging as his ribald plot. An accomplished debut worth noting. Recommended for all collections.?David A. Berona, Westbrook Coll. Lib., Portland, Me.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist Galef's first novel is concerned with obsession and voyeurism. Don Shapiro, a professor at the University of Mississippi, tells the story of Max, a new addition to the school's history department. Max is "cheerfully self-sufficient" (often to the point of rudeness), a womanizer, a "chameleon," and not above lying, which makes Don so very curious that from the first day Max moves in next door, Don begins spying on him. What intrigues Don most is the number of affairs Max has--but only with obese women. Don becomes so inquisitive that he begins to watch Max's sexual encounters via a peephole. At some point, the question becomes who is more obsessed: Max, in search of yet another conquest, or Don, with his none-too-explainable interest in another man's sex life? Along the way, academia is shown as a cluster of complaints, dislikes, and self-loathing. Brian McCombie
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. A "fetish" that dares not speak its name By A Customer A young married professor comes to a smallSouthern university town and befriendsa colleague, whose interests include heavy dosesof bicycling. Soon, however, our protagonist noticesthat his friend is attracted to a certain kind of woman--the heavy kind! As the young professor voyeuristicallywatches his friend move from relationship torelationship, he begins to question his own rathermundane existence, and by the end of the novelhe has become obsessed with his friend's lifestyle.I am a lover of BBW (Big Beautiful Women) myself, so I was instantly attracted to the subject matter.Although the climax of the story is somewhat troubling(suffice it to say that it appears the author "punishes"the colleague for his tastes), I thought the treatment oflarger women as objects of desire was otherwise fair.As more and more women rightly rebel againstAmerica's renewed "corset culture" (i.e., one thatdemands that women be ever slimmer, to the point ofceasing to menstruate), I am happy to see at least onework of professional fiction that celebrates fleshywomanly beauty. Perhaps "Flesh" will bring even moreFAs (Fat Admirers) out of the closet than are currentlyemerging on the internet, no longer afraid to confess tothe fetish that dares not speak its name
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. "Fat Bottomed Girl, You Make the Rockin' World Go Round" By Cliff Burns David Galef has a keen sense of humor--FLESH exhibits his observational skills and knack for creating fully fleshed (!) characters, damned and redeemed by their flaws and innate humanity. Anti-fat bias? I read this novel from cover to cover and back again and could find no such thing. It is a book about fetishists and bent desires and is written with such obvious affection toward its subjects that anyone looking for an ax to grind had better check another tool shed. FLESH is achingly funny and its rather jaundiced depiction of academia reminds me of a terrific Richard Russo offering I read some years back. An erotic and knowing novel by a writer who has only gotten better over the years. Check out his new book HOW TO COPE WITH SUBURBAN STRESS and you'll see what I mean. A courageous and literate author.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Launch of the FA novel By R. Altman Flesh tells the story of Don's fascination with Max. But the heart of thematter is what fascinates Max. They inhabit a world of academia, in a sense 'anycampus, USA', although actually set in the venerable halls of Ole Miss, USA. Don is something of an outsider, originating in New York, but the real outsider is Max. We are taken on a whistle stop tour of the dramatis personae of the campus and the town, a bit of voyeurism into their features and foibles, but the keenest quarry of our looking in is Max, right down to Don's peephole into his apartment.So what is it about Max?? Well, a little like this preamble, following theexplicitly up front announcement of the title, we are only slowly andgradually ushered through to the centre stage - that Max is an FA and hisattention is on big women. So what's an FA? Certainly the phrase doesn'tappear in the book. A for Admirer is the more general currency. Could beAdorer...maybe Appreciater is best. No matter - the etymology and theliteral rendition is already unimportant; it's shorthand for men with ataste, in the words of that FA blues, for Big Legged Women.Flesh is a pacy, piquant and perky novel. Witty and entertaining. Itsvignettes of 'scripted' conversation and 'screenplay' action at the severalcocktail type agglomerations of the characters which pepper the booksometimes verge on the hilarious and appear, here at any rate, as a forte of the author. But this is the stuff of many a novel and even many a good one - but not for this is the book remarkable, No, it is for its contribution to thegenre, indeed for its launching of the genre that FAs will be interested in it,and perhaps celebrating it. After all - they (you?) may have read the pieces in FAmags, and seen the pieces on FA websites, but before this had they ever seen a mainstream FA novel? I think not, and for this alone the author is to be congratulated. Perhaps a case of one small step for FAs, one giant step for mainstream publishing.In a way the sheer title and the main feature of one of the centralprotaganists remain the most remarkable things about it. The distinguishing marks of the book unfold gingerly - perhaps we're witnessing a sort of tentative coming out on the part of the author. Indeed, as he grows bolder, so each successive flame of Max's emerges with greater girth than the last. There are sorties into the territory of the wordsmithing of voluptuousness, although these too remain tentative and ambivalent - FA's will find them alluring, while for others they will remain descriptive and non-committal - Beatrice -'the whole of her was substantial, she seemed to overflow her boundaries'; Helen - 'her breasts warped the design of her T-shirt like twin Mercator projections'; Bibi - 'hard to tell where her bust ended and her belly began...she clamped his hand ...between her armpit and the fleshy swell of her upper arm'. And these too come with accelerating frequency in the latter part of the book.Finally, there is the sting in the tail at the end of the narrative, andhaving already said that, I'll resist saying any more to give the endingaway. (Yes, for those who've already read it, pun intended.) The endingitself has to be, at least, controversial. There's a dark humour in it thatfrom the fat apologist's point of view could be thought regrettable; but thebook wan't written as a polemic, and as a mainstream publication perhapsinevitably it would conclude with a catchy and dramatic rather than a happy ending.For readers left wondering about the author's personal views on fat issues,here's his statement: "I believe that fat people - or large-sized, orwhatever term you prefer - are still some of the most discriminated against people in civilized countries that ought to know and behave better."
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