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Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays

Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays

Mary Gaitskill

Hardcover

Letters & Essays

ISBN10: 0307378225
ISBN13: 9780307378224
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: Apr 1 2017
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
From one of the most singular presences in American fiction comes a searingly intelligent book of essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal. Whether she's writing about date rape or political adultery or writers from John Updike to Gillian Flynn, Mary Gaitskill reads her subjects deftly and aphoristically and moves beyond them to locate the deep currents of longing, ambition, perversity, and loneliness in the American unconscious. She shows us the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Björk, the playfulness of artist Laurel Nakadate. She celebrates the clownish grandiosity and the poetry of Norman Mailer's long career and maps the sociosexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace. And in the deceptively titled Lost Cat, she explores how the most intimate relationships may be warped by power and race.

Witty, tender, beautiful, and unsettling, Somebody with a Little Hammer displays the same heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which we value Gaitskill's fiction.

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