Lusts

by Clark Blaise

Richard Durgin desires and marries the beautiful, sophisticated, and gifted Rachel, his opposite in many ways, yet he never comes to understand or truly love her until after her death

253 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1983

About the author

Clark Blaise, OC (born 10 April 1940) is a Canadian author.
Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he currently lives in San Francisco, California. He has been married since 1963 to writer Bharati Mukherjee. They have two sons. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, Blaise was also the director of the International Writing Program. While living in Montreal in the early 1970s he joined with authors Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf and Ray Smith to form the celebrated Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group.
In 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to Canadian letters as an author, essayist, teacher, and founder of the post-graduate program in creative writing at Concordia University".

Reviews

[Laura M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprising depth. A lot of references to Pittsburgh.

[Alan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book about poetry, lost love, writing.