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Title Somebody with a little hammer : essays / Mary Gaitskill.
Publisher New York : Pantheon Books, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Description vii, 272 pages ; 22 cm
Edition First Edition.


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 EI-Adult Collection  814.54 GAI Nearby on shelf  30626003136997 10-14-21  AVAILABLE
Contents A lot of exploding heads: on reading the Book of Revelation -- The trouble with following the rules: on "date rape," "victim culture," and personal responsibility -- A lovely chaotic silliness: a review of The Fermata by Nicholson Baker -- Toes 'n hose: a review of From the Tip of the Toes to the Top of the Hose by Elmer Batters, and Nothing But the Girl, edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener -- Crackpot mystic spirit: a review of Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus -- Bitch: a review of Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel -- Dye hard: a review of Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates -- Mechanical rabbit: a review of Licks of Love by John Updike -- I've seen it all: thoughts on a song by Björk -- And it would not be wonderful to meet a megalosaurus: on Bleak House by Charles Dickens -- Remain in light: on the Talking Heads -- Victims and losers: a love story: thoughts on the movie Secretary -- The bridge: a memoir of Saint Petersburg -- Somebody with a little hammer: on teaching "Gooseberries" by Anton Chekhov -- Enchantment and cruelty: on Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie -- Worshipping the overcoat: an election diary -- This doughty nose: on Norman Mailer's An American Dream and The Armies of Night -- Lost cat: a memoir -- I see their hollowness: a review of Cockroach by Rawi Hage -- Lives of the hags: a review of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic -- Leave the woman alone!: on the never-ending political extramarital scandals -- Master's mind: a review of Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk -- Imaginary light: a song called "Nowhere girl" -- Form over feeling: a review of Out by Natsuo Kirino -- Beg for your life: on the films of Laurel Nakadate -- The cunning of women: on One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan al-Shaykh -- Pictures of Lo: on covering Lolita -- The easiest thing to forget: on Carl Wilson's Let's Talk About Love -- She's supposed to make you sick: a review of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn -- Icon: on Linda Lovelace -- That running shadow of your voice: on Nabokov's Letters to Veŕa.
Summary "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. "-- Cover, page 2.
Other edition Online version: Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- author. Somebody with a little hammer First Edition. New York : Pantheon Books, [2017] 9781101871775
Subject Popular culture.
American essays -- 20th century.
American essays -- 21st century.
Genre Essays.
ISBN 9780307378224
9780307378224
0307378225
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