Shopping in Space by Elizabeth Young
Shopping in Space takes a walk on the wild side of literature to analyse contemporary New York fiction. This is a fiction of urban depravity and moral decay: greed and deviancy, crime, bohemianism, sexual excess, nightlife and narcotics. From the glittering consumer circus of up-town Manhattan to the desperate strategies of the alienated and dispossessed, the city offers unparalleled opportunities to the creative artist. Young and Caveney provide a close reading of a number of writers including Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Mary Gaitskill, Gary Indiana and Dennis Cooper. Shopping in Space is the literary history of a new generation - essential for all scholars of American literature as well as the general reader who seeks a future for fiction.
?A definitive work of contemporary cultural criticism? New Statesman ?Succeeds in making literary criticism a good read? Guardian ?The only critic on the planet to accuse Ellis of moralityAnd she?s right? Seattle Weekly
Graham Caveney lectures at the University of East Anglia. His articles have appeared in The Face, NME and GQ, among many others. He lives in Nottingham.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852422554 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852422556 |
| Title | Shopping in Space |
| Author | Elizabeth Young |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1992-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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