![]() ![]() Taken together, 'Gospodar” and 'Little Saint” are, arguably, the book's center of gravity. In the center of the book are three pieces grouped together as 'Loving R.” Of this structure, Greenwell said, 'They (the chapters/stories) are very clearly speaking to each and mirroring each other.” ![]() The second and penultimate stories, 'Gospodar” and 'Little Saint,” are each explicitly (and exquisitely) detailed sexual encounters. The book's first and last chapters, 'Mentor” and 'An Evening Out,” for example, both find the narrator in fraught situations with a student or former student. Or to employ a different metaphor: 'These nine centers or nodes of intention are like constellations held in place by these charged relationships between them.” Like a composer, he thought deeply about how 'Cleanness” would work in terms similar to musical notions of harmony, key, mood, tone and more. 'This thing I say about it being a song cycle, that's really how I think of it,” he explained. He also thinks about the book in musical terms, drawing on his own extensive experiences as a musician and poet. ![]() ![]() 'What Belongs to You” won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. ![]()
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