Nude Men
{{short description|1993 novel by Amanda Filipacchi}}
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| name = Nude Men
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| author = Amanda Filipacchi
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Novel
| publisher = Viking
| release_date = 1993
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| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
| pages = 288pp
| isbn = 0-670-84785-2
| dewey = 813/.54 20
| congress = PS3556.I428 N83 1993
| oclc = 26672255
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| followed_by = Vapor
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Nude Men is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. At age twenty-two, she wrote it as her thesis for Columbia University's graduate creative writing program.Edgar, Kathleen. Contemporary Authors. Cengage Gale, 1996, p. 137. It was published by Viking in hardback and by Penguin in paperback, and was translated into 13 languages, including French, Turkish, and Hebrew.{{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9010240?q=nude+men&c=book |title=Trove: Nude men / Amanda Filipacchi |publisher=National Library of Australia |accessdate=2013-05-01}}Including German, French, Slovak, Danish, Dutch, Turkish, German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Swedish, and Russian. {{cite web|title=Records in Index Translationum database|url=http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsresult.aspx?a=Filipacchi&stxt=&sl=&l=&c=&pla=&pub=&tr=&e=&udc=&d=&from=&to=&tie=a|work=Index Translationum|publisher=UNESCO|accessdate=28 April 2013}} The Chicago Tribune wrote that it was "reminiscent of some of Philip Roth's zanier explorations of identity and sexuality."{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/06/27/unpredictably-original/|title=Unpredictably Original: Finding Signs Of Hope In Three Very Different First Novels|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2013-05-04}} Kirkus Reviews noted that it "combines the techniques of Thomas McGuane with bits of Lolita and The Picture of Dorian Gray."{{cite magazine|url=http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/amanda-filipacchi/nude-men/|magazine=Kirkus Reviews|title=Nude Men|accessdate=May 10, 2013}}
Plot summary
Nude Men is about a twenty-nine-year-old man who is sexually pursued by a "precocious 11-year-old... who makes Lolita look like a Girl Scout."{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vScAAAAAMBAJ&q=amanda+filipacchi|title=Skin Deep|publisher=New York Magazine|date= 14 June 1993|accessdate=2013-05-04}}
The novel explores the man's horror at his own attraction, and recounts his efforts at resisting her persistent advances.
References
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Category:Novels by Amanda Filipacchi
Category:American satirical novels
Category:American magic realism novels
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