Women I Love

A Provocative And Bracing Send-Up Of Modern Masculinity From The Author Of Class And The Story Of My Purity.Marcello An Editor And A Poet Is On The Brink Of His Forties. Like Everyone In His Life Including His Sister-In-Law He’S Writing A Novel. This Novel. This Novel Will Be About Women. Love. Growing Older. Maybe Even Taking Responsibility. But Unfortunately For Marcello The Women In His Life Resist Definition. They Flit And Flicker Constantly Between Archetype And Actuality: Sirens And Saviors Subordinates And Savants Vixens And Villains.. So Marcello Cannot Write Plainly About Love. Instead He Tries To Write About The Complexities Of His Many Relationships: Eleonora The Junior Editor His Former Protégé And Sometime Lover; Barbara His Claustrophobic Girlfriend; Irene His Estranged Gay Sister; And His Elegant Mother.. Fresh Frank And Painfully Cool Francesco Pacifico’S The Women I Love Dives Nakedly Into Gender Sex And Power. Set In A Vivid And Alcoholic Italy It Acknowledges And Subverts The Narrow Ways Canonical Male Writers Gaze At And Somehow Fail To See Women?Illuminating The Possibility Of Equity Between People In Love In Bed In Work And In Life.