The Diary Of An Emotional Idiot
World of Books
The feel-good place to buy books
The Diary Of An Emotional Idiot by Maggie Estep
The novel tells the story of Zoey, a smut writer and receptionist at a dungeon in New York City. She is a self-described emotional idiot. The chapters alternate between her life as a child, growing up with a father who was shattered in a parachuting accident turned horse trainer, and her life as an adult, where she writes smut and answers the phone for dominatrixes because she only possesses a touch of sadism. The book cycles between different examples of sex and addiction. Zoey relates her representations of sex as a Catholic school-girl to her career as a pornographer. Her first kiss at age twelve, sweaty and struggling on the floor of a school bus on the return trip from summer camp, is a precursor to her messy, chaotic relationships with men as an adult. The novel never dips into the saccharine realm of compassion or redemption. Instead Estep portrays emotional idiots with deadpan honesty. Estep strips her characters of all defenses, so that by the end of the novel, the reader finds that they have been stripped as well.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781887128988 |
| ISBN 10 | 1887128980 |
| Title | The Diary Of An Emotional Idiot |
| Author | Maggie Estep |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Soft Skull Press |
| Year published | 2003-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |