The taos truth game

He raises the famous dead and restores them not just to animated life, but to the full psychological and spiritual life of the living.

The Taos Truth Game is a major literary achievement. How Ganz manages to do this is one of fiction writing's enduring and humbling mysteries. This book will have a wide and enthusiastic audience, starting with me. Subjects: Fiction. Jump to navigation. Shopping Cart. Add to Cart. Exam Copy. Rights Info. By Earl Ganz. Details Overview When Myron Brinig arrived in Taos in , he thought he was just passing through on his way to a screenwriting job in Hollywood. Ganz is a true aesthete who has created a vehicle for his incredible lyricism and poetic sensibility.

The Taos Truth Game is voyeuristic, affectionate and historically solid. This is a game that readers will most certainly enjoy. You will often find yourself rereading a passage just to enjoy its beauty again. That alone is worth the price of admission. Also of Interest. Ganz exposes the daily drama of life in Mabel Dodge Luhan's orbit, and offers a rare look at our queer heritage in the American West that goes beyond the usual footnote or erasure.

By weaving this pastiche from a forgotten novelist's memoirs, Mr. Ganz delightfully resurrects the truth game and invites us to play a hand. He raises the famous dead and restores them not just to animated life, but to the full psychological and spiritual life of the living. The Taos Truth Game is a major literary achievement.

How Ganz manages to do this is one of fiction writing's enduring and humbling mysteries. This book will have a wide and enthusiastic audience, starting with me. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Taos Truth Game , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters.

Sort order. Start your review of The Taos Truth Game. Jun 09, Erastes rated it it was amazing Shelves: gay-historical. So I was rather unsettled—was I reading biography? Or fiction? Was I poking my nose into private lives or an imagining of what those lives were like? Earl Ganz discovered Myron Brinig when researching, and found that not only was he a Jewish writer writing at an exciting time—and was labelled with other luminaires as being an up and coming star—but he was a homosexual and that several of his books had that theme.

Ganz as he explains in a lengthly and interesting afterword became a little obsessed with finding out how this man could have dropped out of the public eye so very completely, after having written books that won awards and in one notable case wase made into Hollywood motion picture — one of them starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn The Sisters — Brinig gave him a copy of his unpublished memoire, and it is from this memoire that Ganz spun Taos Truth Game. Once I got past this feeling of voyeurism I settled in and found a book full of lavish prose and wonderful although none of them really loveable drawn characters.

The writing is incredible, at times as stark as the landscape, at other times witty and erudite and at others cutting, self-destructive and full of vitriol. Nov 29, Tom Ratliff rated it really liked it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.

To view it, click here. This was an interesting read. It actually held my attention and only took me 2 months to read, which says a lot! The Taos setting made it sort of exciting reminiscing our trips there in the past and my wonderful moments in the hot tub with my old man lover Mar 22, Mattilda added it.

Apr 16, Barbarawiley rated it it was ok Shelves: already-read. The writing was not particularly captivating and the main thing I remember about it is that Mabel had syphillis. Jun 06, Janet rated it liked it. This book was okay. Interesting historical fiction about the art crowd in Taos in the 's. Read for our book club. Susan Thompson rated it really liked it Aug 10, Joan rated it really liked it Nov 24, Jeanne rated it really liked it Apr 26, Pat rated it really liked it Oct 29, Jonathan Frederick Walz rated it liked it Oct 25, Tommy Hickey rated it did not like it Nov 26,