bokomslag Close to the Bone
Memoarer & biografier

Close to the Bone

Laurie Stone

Pocket

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  • 288 sidor
  • 1998
In this provocative collection of memoirs, eight acclaimed writers go about the risky business of telling their own secrets. Collectively, they provide what amounts to a psychic map of American life, from the streets of New Yorks East Villagewhere Peter Trachtenbergs affair with a fragile ex-prostitute becomes entwined with scenes from an imaginary film noir, to the trailer parks of southern Californiawhere, in a last-ditch bid for affection, Terminator dresses in drag and seduces his abusive mothers boyfriend. in between, Jane Creighton has an affair with her gentle, sickly brother; Lois Gould recalls Businessmanthe flamboyant gentleman who had a string of red-haired mistresses and who, incidentally, was her father; Philip Lopate views his pathologically schlumpy dad in a nursing home; Laurie Stone searches for the connections between her creativity and her addiction to sex; Jerry Stahl remembers his rock-bottom days doing crack in Los Angeles; and Catherine Texier, an accomplished adult, meets her father for the first time in the south of France. In her introduction, award-winning critic Laurie Stone gives the genre an incisive once-over and explores the question: Why is memoir so dominant on the literary scene? These storiesfilled with harrowing self-knowledge, as antic as they are hauntinggo a long way toward answering that question.
  • Författare: Laurie Stone
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780802135827
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 288
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1998-09-01
  • Förlag: Avalon Travel Publishing