Outlaws
Usually prudent, history professor Jon Marcus has become involved in long-distance affairs with his brother’s wife and his wife’s sister. Compounding Marcus's problems is the fallout, twenty-five years later, from a teenage romance with his cousin. Outlaws is that contradiction in terms, a scintillating dark comedy–erudite, entertaining, and moving–about a subject that's taboo even today.

Marcus's sordid past and messy present might have been a little easier to deal with if he had a real job. But he's a teacher at a liberal arts college in Florida, a school with more than its share of flaky academics. When Jon’s mother is diagnosed with lung cancer, things begin to unravel. Marcus had recently signed on as an advisor to a subversive production of The Magic Flute, and his work on the opera provides a mostly welcome distraction. Jon also volunteers weekends at his local animal shelter, where he walks the dogs that will be euthanized on Monday. He begins doing this more often as the storm clouds gather.

Set in Tampa, Los Angeles, New York, and Las Vegas, and Venice, California, and Venice, Italy, Outlaws is a buoyant, engaging narrative about some of the most dangerous of liaisons. The disgruntled colleagues, eccentric singers, quarrelsome brothers, appealing cousin, and seductive sisters-in-law are rendered with wit and sympathy, and their story is one that readers won't soon forget.
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Outlaws
Usually prudent, history professor Jon Marcus has become involved in long-distance affairs with his brother’s wife and his wife’s sister. Compounding Marcus's problems is the fallout, twenty-five years later, from a teenage romance with his cousin. Outlaws is that contradiction in terms, a scintillating dark comedy–erudite, entertaining, and moving–about a subject that's taboo even today.

Marcus's sordid past and messy present might have been a little easier to deal with if he had a real job. But he's a teacher at a liberal arts college in Florida, a school with more than its share of flaky academics. When Jon’s mother is diagnosed with lung cancer, things begin to unravel. Marcus had recently signed on as an advisor to a subversive production of The Magic Flute, and his work on the opera provides a mostly welcome distraction. Jon also volunteers weekends at his local animal shelter, where he walks the dogs that will be euthanized on Monday. He begins doing this more often as the storm clouds gather.

Set in Tampa, Los Angeles, New York, and Las Vegas, and Venice, California, and Venice, Italy, Outlaws is a buoyant, engaging narrative about some of the most dangerous of liaisons. The disgruntled colleagues, eccentric singers, quarrelsome brothers, appealing cousin, and seductive sisters-in-law are rendered with wit and sympathy, and their story is one that readers won't soon forget.
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Outlaws

Outlaws

by Josh Michaels
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Usually prudent, history professor Jon Marcus has become involved in long-distance affairs with his brother’s wife and his wife’s sister. Compounding Marcus's problems is the fallout, twenty-five years later, from a teenage romance with his cousin. Outlaws is that contradiction in terms, a scintillating dark comedy–erudite, entertaining, and moving–about a subject that's taboo even today.

Marcus's sordid past and messy present might have been a little easier to deal with if he had a real job. But he's a teacher at a liberal arts college in Florida, a school with more than its share of flaky academics. When Jon’s mother is diagnosed with lung cancer, things begin to unravel. Marcus had recently signed on as an advisor to a subversive production of The Magic Flute, and his work on the opera provides a mostly welcome distraction. Jon also volunteers weekends at his local animal shelter, where he walks the dogs that will be euthanized on Monday. He begins doing this more often as the storm clouds gather.

Set in Tampa, Los Angeles, New York, and Las Vegas, and Venice, California, and Venice, Italy, Outlaws is a buoyant, engaging narrative about some of the most dangerous of liaisons. The disgruntled colleagues, eccentric singers, quarrelsome brothers, appealing cousin, and seductive sisters-in-law are rendered with wit and sympathy, and their story is one that readers won't soon forget.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780989099318
Publisher: The Brabant Press
Publication date: 09/20/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 260
File size: 524 KB

What People are Saying About This

Josh Getlin

If all Josh Michaels served up in Outlaws was a darkly comic take on the dilemma of having sex with one's in- laws—a provocative theme reminiscent of Philip Roth at his best —it would have been enough. But Outlaws, a compellingly readable first novel that touches down in Florida, Southern California, Venice, and Las Vegas, offers so much more. Painting a scathing portrait of a modern American family, Michaels mixes vignettes of petty squabbling and cringe-worthy spats with moments of genuine tragedy and revelation. Along the way, there are engaging riffs on the history of Venice, the humiliations of academic life, the world of pet rescue activists, and ruminations on Mozart's The Magic Flute, including a sympathetic (and long overdue) reassessment of the Queen of the Night. The beauty of Outlaws is that all of this fits together in a seamless, beautifully written narrative you won't soon forget. A solid literary debut, highly recommended. --Josh Getlin - New York-based books and culture writer, former New York Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times.

Barry Spacks

A Balzacian variety-show full of learning and hi-jinx, this sophisticated study of eros and family takes no prisoners. Featuring warring siblings, impulsive bed-switchings, full-hearted academic satire, and a production of The Magic Flute to boot, in the good old praise-phrase, it's a page-turner. --Barry Spacks - author of the novels The Sophmore and Orphans, and eleven volumes of poetry, including Spacks Street: New and Collected Poems and The Hope of the Air

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