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Overview: Benjamin Taylor was born and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. After graduation from Haverford College, he attended Columbia University, where he earned a doctorate. He has taught at The New School for Social Research. Columbia, and each spring term is at Washington University in Saint Louis, where he teaches modern literature. His essays and journalism have appeared in Antaeus, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Raritan, The Threepenny Review, Salmagundi, The Georgia Review, The New England Review, and other publications. His previous book is Into the Open: Reflections on Genius and Modernity. Tales Out of School is his first novel.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > LGBT > Queer > Coming-of-age
"Tales Out of School" is the story of the Mehmels, privileged and eccentric and headed into shipwreck, and of fourteen-year-old Felix, last of their line, who takes his rise from the family ruin. The place is Galveston Island. The season is summer. The year is 1907. Among the crowd of memorable characters in this novel are Lucy Pumphrey Mehmel, Felix’s mother, a woman torn between the Catholicism into which she was born and the Judaism into which she has married; Etta Murph, a sibyl in the guise of a tutor, Boston-married to Velma Truley, her faithful companion and scold of thirty years; Leo Mehmel, Felix’s bachelor uncle, amateur ornithologist and spendthrift of a rapidly dwindling inheritance; Nathan Gernsbacher, elderly rabbi of the town, who has lost all knack for the faith he avows; Peter Munger and Albert Roache, brave but dubious aeronauts, rough young men at work on a flying machine of their own design; lastly — and catalyst to them all — Yankel Schmulowicz, the uncanny stranger who turns up in Galveston to ply his mysteries, leaving nothing as it was before he came. Erotic as it is spiritual, homely as it is exalted, insistently comical as it is deeply sad, a book of life’s inevitable opposites, "Tales Out of School" establishes Benjamin Taylor in the forefront of serious contemporary fiction and testifies to a vivid potential in previously unexplored byways of the American heritage.
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