Gone: A Novel

by Martin Roper

In this erotic, emotional debut novel, a young man is torn between two cities, two cultures, and two women.

Disillusioned with his marriage to the controlling Ursula, shattered by the death of his sister, and unsettled by the vandals threatening the security of his home, Stephen, a young Dubliner, moves to New York hoping to make a clean start.

He is quickly swept up in an affair with Holfy, a fiercely independent woman fifteen years his senior, but before long finds himself living a divided life, unable to break his ties to Ursula, Dublin, and the past. The obsessive, intensely erotic bond with Holfy soon begins to fray, and Stephen is forced to face himself and to unravel an identity-and a home-that no longer seems to exist.

Navigating a rocky journey through the labyrinth of death, desire, and the fickleness of truth, Gone combines raw emotion and sensuality with Joycean lyricism. It confirms the arrival of an exciting new talent.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published February 6, 2002

Reviews

[Elyssa]

I took a class with Martin at NYU and he was excellent, as is this novel. I look forward to more writing from him.

[Paul Walker]

Interesting introspective novel about a man who doesn't seem that fun to be around, whether one is a woman or not.

[Layla]

love his retrospect about life and love