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Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire

Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire

Stone, Laurie

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ISBN10: 080213582X
ISBN13: 9780802135827
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Aug 6 1998
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.26
Language: English

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 York's East Village-where Peter Trachtenberg's affair with a fragile ex-prostitute becomes entwined with scenes from an imaginary film noir, to the trailer parks of southern California-where, in a last-ditch bid for affection, Terminator dresses in drag and seduces his abusive mother's boyfriend. in between, Jane Creighton has an affair with her gentle, sickly brother; Lois Gould recalls Businessman-the 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.

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