Books by Bruce Benderson and Complete Book Reviews
Bruce Benderson, Author . Penguin/Tarcher $16.95 (401p) ISBN 978-1-58542-478-8
Benderson was wandering Budapest researching sex clubs for Nerve. com when he fell in love. Romulus, a Romanian street hustler, was a sleekly attractive, uneducated (though clever) 24-year old (significantly younger than Benderson), into soccer, TV...
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Bruce Benderson, Author University of Wisconsin Press $24.95 (181p) ISBN 978-0-299-22314-4
In this slim volume of 10 essays, author, journalist and translator Benderson (The Romanian: Story of an Obsession) addresses a range of issues including passion and devotion, death and disease, art and the internet. Pieces such as ""The Spider...
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Bruce Benderson, Author Plume Books $8.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-452-26390-1
In the representative title story, Nancy Reagan drops in on druggies in a crummy New York neighborhood claiming to have slipped away from an anti-drug meeting in search of a needle and thread to fix her sagging hem. Benderson supplies some funny...
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Bruce Benderson, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-525-93722-7
Benderson's second novel (after Pretending to Say No ) plunges the reader into a wretched, liminal community of transexual hustlers, street people, debased cops and bohemian junkies congregating in and around New York City's Time Square. Careening...
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