Close to the Bone by Laurie Stone

Close to the Bone by Laurie Stone

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.

In her introduction, award-winning critic Laurie Stone gives the genre an incisive once-over and explores the question: Why is memoir so dominant on the literary scene? These stories-filled with harrowing self-knowledge, as antic as they are haunting-go a long way toward answering that question.

LAURIE STONE is the author of the novel Starting with Serge and of Laughing in the Dark, a collection of her writing on comic performance, as well as the editor of Close to the Bone, a collection of memoirs. A longtime writer for the Village Voice, she has been a theater critic for The Nation and critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air. She lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780802116185
ISBN 10	0802116183
Titel	Close to the Bone
Autor	Laurie Stone
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Grove Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1997-09-01
Seitenanzahl	257
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