| Nude Men | |
| Author: | Amanda Filipacchi |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Viking |
| Release Date: | 1993 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages: | 288pp |
| Isbn: | 0-670-84785-2 |
| Dewey: | 813/.54 20 |
| Congress: | PS3556.I428 N83 1993 |
| Oclc: | 26672255 |
| Followed By: | Vapor |
Nude Men is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. At age twenty-two, she wrote it as her thesis for Columbia University's graduate creative writing program.[1] It was published by Viking in hardback and by Penguin in paperback, and was translated into 13 languages, including French, Turkish, and Hebrew.[2] [3] The Chicago Tribune wrote that it was "reminiscent of some of Philip Roth's zanier explorations of identity and sexuality."[4] Kirkus Reviews noted that it "combines the techniques of Thomas McGuane with bits of Lolita and The Picture of Dorian Gray."[5]
Nude Men is about a twenty-nine-year-old man who is sexually pursued by a "precocious 11-year-old... who makes Lolita look like a Girl Scout."[6]
The novel explores the man's horror at his own attraction, and recounts his efforts at resisting her persistent advances.