Phallos: Enhanced and Revised Edition

by Samuel R. Delany

A race for the stolen phallus of a nameless god

Phallos is a 2004 novel by the acclaimed novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany. Taking the form of a gay pornographic novella, with the explicit sex omitted, Phallos is set during the reign of the second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, and circles around the historical account of the murder of the emperor's favorite, Antinous. The story moves from Syracuse to Egypt, from the Pillars of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819573558
• ISBN13: 9780819573551
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 7.4"