Research Catalog

Title

Somebody with a little hammer / Mary Gaitskill.

Author

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-

Publication

New York : Pantheon Books, [2017]

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Details

Description

vii, 272 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Engaging, unusual essays written over the last two decades, on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal--from the explosive date rape debates of the '90s to the ubiquitous political adultery of the '00s, from Anton Chekhov to Celine Dion. Here is Mary Gaitskill the essayist: witty, direct, penetrating to the core of each issue, personality, or literary trope (On Updike: "It is as if [he] has entered a tiny window marked 'Rabbit,' and, by some inverse law, passed into a universe of energies both light and dark, expanded and contracted, infinite and workaday." On Elizabeth Wurtzell: "If this kooky, foot-stamping, self-loathing screed is meant to be, as it claims, a defense of 'difficult women,' i.e. women who 'write their own operating manuals' . . . all I can say is, bitches best duck and run for cover.") Gaitskill writes about the ridiculous and poetic ambition of Norman Mailer, about the socio-sexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace, and, in the deceptively titled "Lost Cat," about how power and race can warp the most innocent and intimate of relationships. Appearing in chronological order, the essays offer their thoughts and reactions, always with the heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which we value the author's fiction"--

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subject

• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
• PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality

Call Number

JFD 17-3061

ISBN

• 9780307378224
• 0307378225

LCCN

2016031697

OCLC

2016031697

Author

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- author.

Title

Somebody with a little hammer / Mary Gaitskill.

Publisher

New York : Pantheon Books, [2017]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Lot of exploding heads.

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Trouble with following the rules.

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Lovely chaotic silliness.

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Toes 'n hose.

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Crackpot mystic spirit.

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Bitch.

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Dye hard.

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Mechanical rabbit.

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- I've seen it all.

Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- And it would not be wonderful to meet a megalosaurus.

Other Form:

Online version: Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Somebody with a little hammer First Edition. New York : Pantheon Books, [2017] 9781101871775 (DLC) 2016038033

Research Call Number

JFD 17-3061