Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays

Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays - Paperback

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Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays - Paperback

Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays - Paperback

by Mary Gaitskill
$22.00
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Book Overview

In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Björk, and 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. Witty, wide-ranging, tender, and beautiful, Somebody with a Little Hammer displays the same heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which Gaitskill's writing has always been known.
ISBN9780307472335
Author Mary Gaitskill
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreEducation, Literature, and Self-help & personal development
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Mary Gaitskill

MARY GAITSKILL is the author of the story collections Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award) and Don't Cry, the novels The Mare, Veronica (nominated for a National Book Award), and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and the essay collection Somebody with a Little Hammer. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.

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