Clinical Intimacy

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Told through a dozen distinct voices circling around an elusive man known only as 'S' this is a book that asks if we are the story we tell about ourselves, or the tales others narrate A researcher lays out her investigative parameters. Her subject A mysterious and charismatic man, anonymised as 'S' Her interviewees A succession of family, friends and professional contacts, who together struggle to account for the enigmatic figure who has wandered through their lives, doing some good things and some bad. Clinical Intimacy is a novel that looks at subjectivity through a collective. And it is a novel about fatherhood and sex work, a novel about how we narrativize the things we do to others, and a novel that poses a question that is both simple and complex- what does it mean to care

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Ewan Gass was born in Nottingham. When eight years old he stuck to his bedroom door a typewritten note outlining his desire to become a writer. He has worked as a journalist and teacher in Cambridge, London, Paris and New York. He now lives in Munich. His short story 'Questionnaire' was shortlisted for the White Review short story competition in 2020. Other work has appeared in 3-AM. Clinical Intimacy is his first novel.