Isham Cook: 9 books

Book cover of Lust & Philosophy
by Isham Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013

To track down Cookie, an elusive woman fleetingly glimpsed around his Beijing neighborhood, expat Isham Cook employs tips from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Simone Martini's painting of the Annunciation and Louis Althusser's Lenin and Philosophy. Meanwhile, Luna, a woman of flamboyant sexuality...
Book cover of American Rococo: Essays On the Edge
by Isham Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017

What do seashells, obesity, graffiti, and the American ghetto have in common? Nude hot springs and the Japanese theater? Atheists and family-values conservatives? Why do atheists go on religious pilgrimages? How have schools infantilized our understanding of Shakespeare, and the textbook industry...
Book cover of At the Teahouse Café: Essays from the Middle Kingdom
by Isham Cook
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015

It’s 1949 at Revolutionary University. Chinese students spend all their waking hours in political meetings—when they’re not hauling feces from the latrines to the manure fields. Jump to 2015. Chinese endure endless meetings at the hands of bosses and are required to keep their cellphones...
Book cover of Massage and the Writer: Essays on Asian Massage
by Isham Cook
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014

There is no more schizophrenic pastime than the application of oil to flesh. Whether as bodily relief and relaxation, a means of seduction, or a form of prostitution, massage has long both fascinated and repelled. But what if these contradictory aspects of the practice—the therapeutic and the erotic—were...
Book cover of The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China
by Isham Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014

A foreign teacher struggles with proper whipping technique on his female student, while another gives his student a mysterious substance known as LSD. In other stories, a sex robot rapes its owner, a female professor trolls cafés minus her underwear, a store clerk softens up a stingy customer with...
Book cover of 確信的未知: 美國人筆下的中國黑色喜劇 (The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China, traditional Chinese edition)
by Isham Cook
Language: Chinese
Release Date: November 1, 2015

某外教艱難地學習著如何鞭打調教他的女學生,另一外教則讓學生服下一種叫做LSD的神秘物質。在其他故事裡,性機器人強姦主人,不穿內衣的女教授光顧各大咖啡館“獵艷”,售貨員用拳頭對付小氣的顧客,外國人太晚醒悟自己卷入的不是一次普通的家庭拜訪而是一場騙局。在這個毫無規則、叫做“中國”的大棋盤內上演的,無論是當地人與外國人之間,還是當地人彼此之間的衝突,在一名絕不循規蹈矩的外國人筆下發酵成比黑洞更為深邃的黑色喜劇,並凝結成這本讓人不安卻不失娛樂性的先鋒故事集。庫克的情色怪誕故事集像是一面哈哈鏡,映射出來華外國人最為荒誕的遭遇,堪稱一部絕無僅有的作品。——James...
Book cover of 确信的未知:美国人笔下的中国黑色喜剧 (The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China, simplified Chinese edition)
by Isham Cook
Language: Chinese
Release Date: March 15, 2014

某外教艰难地学习着如何鞭打调教他的女学生,另一外教则让学生服下一种叫做LSD的神秘物质。在其他故事里,性机器人强奸主人,不穿内衣的女教授光顾各大咖啡馆“猎艳”,售货员用拳头对付小气的顾客,外国人太晚醒悟自己卷入的不是一次普通的家庭拜访而是一场骗局。在这个毫无规则、叫做“中国”的大棋盘内上演的,无论是当地人与外国人之间,还是当地人彼此之间的冲突,在一名绝不循规蹈矩的外国人笔下发酵成比黑洞更为深邃的黑色喜剧,并凝结成这本让人不安却不失娱乐性的先锋故事集。库克的情色怪诞故事集像是一面哈哈镜,映射出来华外国人最为荒诞的遭遇,堪称一部绝无仅有的作品。——James...
Book cover of 情欲与哲理 (Lust & Philosophy, simplified Chinese edition)
by Isham Cook
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 26, 2013

在华工作的美国人艾沙姆·库克了找到曲奇——曾在北京住处附近偶遇的谜一般女子,试图从莎士比亚的《罗密欧和茱丽叶》,西蒙德·马蒂尼的画作“受胎告知”以及路易·阿尔都塞的《列宁与哲学》中发现灵感。同时,露娜,一个情欲力量喷薄、将共同进餐的客人引诱上床的女人,帮助艾沙姆追求第三个女主人公:美丽妖娆、具体民族不详的亚裔女性阿黛莱。然而哲学家让·鲍德里亚的思想逐渐蚕食、解构现实,直至艾沙姆无法区分露娜和阿黛莱,甚至不能辨认自己究竟是白人还是华裔。带你踏上一趟如梦似幻的旅行,途中一路伴随着惊世骇俗观点的轰炸,《情欲与哲理》既是可“强暴”读者思想的文学作品,又是包含致幻剂元素的童话故事,同时还是全息立体的罗夏测验。对于热衷赫尔曼•黑塞、菲利普•狄克、詹姆斯•格雷厄姆•巴拉德等另类小说家的读者来说,是一部不可错过的读本。“《情欲与哲理》是本实验性、非线性叙事风格的小说,无论是从地域、时间还是思想状态方面都跨度极大,让人不由联想起威廉•巴勒斯那本同样怪诞的小说《裸体午餐》,亨利·米勒的崇拜者们可能会觉得这个风流的库克并不总招人喜欢,但一定会从他身上找到共鸣。”——《Shanghai...
Book cover of 情欲與哲理 (Lust & Philosophy, traditional Chinese edition)
by Isham Cook
Language: Chinese
Release Date: November 1, 2015

在華工作的美國人艾沙姆·庫克了找到曲奇——曾在北京住處附近偶遇的謎一般女子,試圖從莎士比亞的《羅密歐和茱麗葉》,西蒙德·馬蒂尼的畫作“受胎告知”以及路易·阿爾都塞的《列寧與哲學》中發現靈感。同時,露娜,一個情慾力量噴薄、將共同進餐的客人引誘上床的女人,幫助艾沙姆追求第三個女主人公:美麗妖嬈、具體民族不詳的亞裔女性阿黛萊。然而哲學家讓·鮑德裡亞的思想逐漸蠶食、解構現實,直至艾沙姆無法區分露娜和阿黛萊,甚至不能辨認自己究竟是白人還是華裔。 帶你踏上一趟如夢似幻的旅行,途中一路伴隨著驚世駭俗觀點的轟炸,《情慾與哲理》既是可“強暴”讀者思想的文學作品,又是包含致幻劑元素的童話故事,同時還是全息立體的羅夏測驗。對於熱衷赫爾曼•黑塞、菲利普•狄克、詹姆斯•格雷厄姆•巴拉德等另類小說家的讀者來說,是一部不可錯過的讀本。 “《情慾與哲理》是本實驗性、非線性敘事風格的小說,無論是從地域、時間還是思想狀態方面都跨度極大,讓人不由聯想起威廉•巴勒斯那本同樣怪誕的小說《裸體午餐》,亨利·米勒的崇拜者們可能會覺得這個風流的庫克並不總招人喜歡,但一定會從他身上找到共鳴。” ——《Shanghai...
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