Loving Monsters (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Hamilton-Paterson
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1918-1999
- Setting: Egypt, Italy, and Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Raymond Jerningham Jebb, James, Marcella, Dario, Claudio, Richards, Mansur, Milo, Agnes Maunsell, Mirella Boschetti, Adelio Boschetti, Philip
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, World War II, England or English people, Egypt or Egyptians, Italy or Italians, Southeast Asia, Fraud, Great Britain, Pornography
- Locales: Egypt, Italy, Great Britain
Although Loving Monsters is presented as a work of fiction, it also plays with the conventions of biography in recounting the story of an elderly Englishman’s progress from callow youth to world-wise adult. The text includes what purport to be photographs of several of its characters and settings, and the author’s “Acknowledgements” refer to Jayjay as if he were an actual person. The otherwise unidentified narrator’s first name, “James,” is the same as that of his putative creator, James Hamilton- Paterson, and there are a number of other similarities between the...
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