The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee

by Matthew Stadler

Michael Upchurch called The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee "a work of great charm, playful paranoia, and exquisite obsession." It is now available from Grove Press in its definitive, revised edition with an introduction by Michael Cunningham. Adrift in a glittering city of high culture and constant crime, an earnest young historian named Nicholas Dee finds his life being taken over by a mysterious dwarf and the curiously gifted illiterate boy he is charged with teaching.

Genres: LGBT, Fiction, American, Gay

352 pages, Paperback

First published September 2, 1993

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[George · Rating 3 out of 5]

Surreal and strange and thoroughly Stadler. There was something Brazil-esque about it, and yet it was unlike anything I've ever read before. The apartment renovation will remain in my mind as I go through my first house remodel...

[Frank · Rating 2 out of 5]

This little novel starts slowly and quietly, then all of a sudden it riveted my attention with a twist. The locale changes but there was not enough resolution at the end for me. Regardless of the title theme, I found the ending unsatisfactory and somewhat disappointing.

[Bryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautifully poetic novel- a good straight-through read on a foggy, melancholy kind of day.