The Resource Somebody with a little hammer : essays, Mary Gaitskill
Somebody with a little hammer : essays, Mary Gaitskill
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The item Somebody with a little hammer : essays, Mary Gaitskill represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- "Engaging, unusual essays written over the last two decades, on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal--from the explosive date rape debates of the '90s to the ubiquitous political adultery of the '00s, from Anton Chekhov to Celine Dion. Here is Mary Gaitskill the essayist: witty, direct, penetrating to the core of each issue, personality, or literary trope (On Updike: "It is as if [he] has entered a tiny window marked 'Rabbit,' and, by some inverse law, passed into a universe of energies both light and dark, expanded and contracted, infinite and workaday." On Elizabeth Wurtzell: "If this kooky, foot-stamping, self-loathing screed is meant to be, as it claims, a defense of 'difficult women,' i.e. women who 'write their own operating manuals' . . . all I can say is, bitches best duck and run for cover.") Gaitskill writes about the ridiculous and poetic ambition of Norman Mailer, about the socio-sexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace, and, in the deceptively titled "Lost Cat," about how power and race can warp the most innocent and intimate of relationships. Appearing in chronological order, the essays offer their thoughts and reactions, always with the heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which we value the author's fiction"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- vii, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307378224
- Label
- Somebody with a little hammer : essays
- Title
- Somebody with a little hammer
- Title remainder
- essays
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Gaitskill
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Engaging, unusual essays written over the last two decades, on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal--from the explosive date rape debates of the '90s to the ubiquitous political adultery of the '00s, from Anton Chekhov to Celine Dion. Here is Mary Gaitskill the essayist: witty, direct, penetrating to the core of each issue, personality, or literary trope (On Updike: "It is as if [he] has entered a tiny window marked 'Rabbit,' and, by some inverse law, passed into a universe of energies both light and dark, expanded and contracted, infinite and workaday." On Elizabeth Wurtzell: "If this kooky, foot-stamping, self-loathing screed is meant to be, as it claims, a defense of 'difficult women,' i.e. women who 'write their own operating manuals' . . . all I can say is, bitches best duck and run for cover.") Gaitskill writes about the ridiculous and poetic ambition of Norman Mailer, about the socio-sexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace, and, in the deceptively titled "Lost Cat," about how power and race can warp the most innocent and intimate of relationships. Appearing in chronological order, the essays offer their thoughts and reactions, always with the heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which we value the author's fiction"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1954-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gaitskill, Mary
- Dewey number
- 814/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
- PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality
- Label
- Somebody with a little hammer : essays, Mary Gaitskill
- Control code
- ocn953597786
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- vii, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307378224
- Lccn
- 2016031697
- System control number
- (OCoLC)953597786
- Label
- Somebody with a little hammer : essays, Mary Gaitskill
- Control code
- ocn953597786
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- vii, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307378224
- Lccn
- 2016031697
- System control number
- (OCoLC)953597786
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