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He revolutionised art by bringing to it images from popular culture—such as the Campbell's soup can and Marilyn Monroe's face—while his studio, the Factory, where his free-spirited cast of 'superstars' mingled with the rich and famous, became the place of origin for every groundswell shaping American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn many ways, he can be seen as the precursor to today’s ‘celebrity artists’ such as Tracey Emin and Damian Hirst. But what of the man behind the white wig and dark glasses? 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When they're apart, our narrator manically contemplates every element of the rabbi's being: his absent husband (who our narrator has also slept with), his alluring adopted son, his broken-down Pontiac, and maybe most of all, the universe between the rabbi's legs. Their relationship is tender but volatile, and their intimacy brews and curdles. Until, in an effort to sustain it, our narrator goes on an unrelenting, increasingly urgent quest to better understand his mercurial lover—one which threatens to upturn the lives of both men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLavish and lascivious, \u003ci\u003eMy Lover, the Rabbi\u003c\/i\u003e is an exuberant exploration of devotion and desire, and the extent to which we can ever really 'know' one another. 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To sustain it, the narrator continues on an unrelenting, increasingly urgent quest to understand the mercurial, ardent rabbi's mysterious past--that is, until he begins to question reality itself. 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