| Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays Contributor(s): Gaitskill, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307472337 ISBN-13: 9780307472335 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Social Science | Popular Culture - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.65 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Bj rk, and 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. Witty, wide-ranging, tender, and beautiful, Somebody with a Little Hammer displays the same heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which Gaitskill's writing has always been known. |