Somebody with a Little Hammer by Mary Gaitskill

Somebody with a Little Hammer by Mary Gaitskill

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. She shows us the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Bj rk, the playfulness of artist Laurel Nakadate. She celebrates the clownish grandiosity and the poetry of Norman Mailer's long career and maps the sociosexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace. And in the deceptively titled Lost Cat, she explores how the most intimate relationships may be warped by power and race.

Witty, tender, beautiful, and unsettling, Somebody with a Little Hammer>displays the same heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which we value Gaitskill's fiction.

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ISBN 13	9780307378224
ISBN 10	0307378225
Title	Somebody with a Little Hammer
Author	Mary Gaitskill
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Year published	2017-04-04
Number of pages	288
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