In this Book
- Impotent: A Novel
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
Impotent is a collection of moving stories about a time when "it is easier to get a refill on a prescription than approval for therapy" and individuals are reduced to letters on a medical chart. In revealing vignettes, Matthew Roberson clinically catalogs the hopes, dreams, and failures of people identified only through form-like abbreviations (C— for co-dependent, I— for Insured). In these "case studies," Roberson captures his subjects' lives poignantly by supplementing their diagnoses with unconventional footnotes, lists, and medicinal warnings. Each vignette exposes a different facet of our medicated society, humanizing a multitude of conditions: depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, impotence, and dementia. In a world of domestic ennui, deadpan voices struggle to transcend numbness while simultaneously trying to manage the pain of living. Impotent is both important social commentary and engrossing fiction.
Table of Contents
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- pp. 21-32
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- pp. 107-136
Additional Information
ISBN
9781573668361
Related ISBN(s)
9781573661485
MARC Record
OCLC
967525005
Pages
166
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-05
Language
English
Open Access
No