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050 00 $aPS3557.A36$bA6 2017
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100 1 $aGaitskill, Mary,$d1954-$eauthor.
240 10 $aEssays.$kSelections
245 10 $aSomebody with a little hammer :$bessays /$cMary Gaitskill.
250 $aFirst Edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c[2017]
264 4 $c©2017
300 $avii, 272 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Engaging, unusual essays written over the last two decades, on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal--from the explosive date rape debates of the '90s to the ubiquitous political adultery of the '00s, from Anton Chekhov to Celine Dion. Here is Mary Gaitskill the essayist: witty, direct, penetrating to the core of each issue, personality, or literary trope (On Updike: "It is as if [he] has entered a tiny window marked 'Rabbit,' and, by some inverse law, passed into a universe of energies both light and dark, expanded and contracted, infinite and workaday." On Elizabeth Wurtzell: "If this kooky, foot-stamping, self-loathing screed is meant to be, as it claims, a defense of 'difficult women,' i.e. women who 'write their own operating manuals' . . . all I can say is, bitches best duck and run for cover.") Gaitskill writes about the ridiculous and poetic ambition of Norman Mailer, about the socio-sexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace, and, in the deceptively titled "Lost Cat," about how power and race can warp the most innocent and intimate of relationships. Appearing in chronological order, the essays offer their thoughts and reactions, always with the heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which we value the author's fiction"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 00 $gA$tlot of exploding heads: on reading the Book of Revelation --$gThe$ttrouble with following the rules: on "date rape," "victim culture," and personal responsibility --$gA$tlovely chaotic silliness: a review of The Fermata by Nicholson Baker --$tToes 'n hose: a review of From the Tip of the Toes to the Top of the Hose by Elmer Batters, and Nothing But the Girl, edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener --$tCrackpot mystic spirit: a review of Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus --$tBitch: a review of Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel --$tDye hard: a review of Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates --$tMechanical rabbit: a review of Licks of Love by John Updike --$tI've seen it all: thoughts on a song by Björk --$tAnd it would not be wonderful to meet a megalosaurus: on Bleak House by Charles Dickens --$tRemain in light: on the Talking Heads --$tVictims and losers: a love story: thoughts on the movie Secretary --$gThe$tbridge: a memoir of Saint Petersburg --$tSomebody with a little hammer: on teaching "Gooseberries" by Anton Chekhov --$tEnchantment and cruelty: on Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie --$tWorshipping the overcoat: an election diary --$tThis doughty nose: on Norman Mailer's An American Dream and The Armies of Night --$tLost cat: a memoir --$tI see their hollowness: a review of Cockroach by Rawi Hage --$tLives of the hags: a review of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic --$tLeave the woman alone!: on the never-ending political extramarital scandals --$tMaster's mind: a review of Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk --$tImaginary light: a song called "Nowhere girl" --$tForm over feeling: a review of Out by Natsuo Kirino --$tBeg for your life: on the films of Laurel Nakadate --$gThe$tcunning of women: on One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan al-Shaykh --$tPictures of Lo: on covering Lolita --$gThe$teasiest thing to forget: on Carl Wilson's Let's Talk About Love --$tShe's supposed to make you sick: a review of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn --$tIcon: on Linda Lovelace --$tThat running shadow of your voice: on Nabokov's Letters to Véra.
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality.$2bisacsh
650 0 $aAmerican essays.
650 4 $aEssays.
655 7 $aEssays.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919922
655 7 $aEssays.$2lcgft
776 08 $iOnline version:$aGaitskill, Mary, 1954- author.$tSomebody with a little hammer$bFirst Edition.$dNew York : Pantheon Books, [2017]$z9781101871775$w(DLC) 2016038033
852 00 $bglx$hPS3557.A36$iA6 2017