Detour charts the struggle of a movie-obsessed would-be medical student to avoid at all cost the straitjacket of a fixed identity. His transient, too intense sexual relationship with a rootless former heroin addict becomes one of the many "detours" that seem to frustrate but ultimately define his quest for connectedness and the fulfillment of a true calling. Detour received the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Citation of the PEN American Center in 1979.
Michael Brodsky has published eleven works of fiction, including the novel Circuits, Dyad, and We Can Report Them. He has recently completed a collection of short fiction entitled Limit-Point and Other Stories. His plays have been performed in NYC. A chapbook of his work can be found here. |
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