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American Romances
Rebecca Brown
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Description for American Romances
Paperback. New England Puritanism meets West Coast hedonism in an inventive remix of America's cultural history. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
"Everything and nothing is sacred in Rebecca Brown's essays. Tongue, word, thought, and intellect all conspire in a free language love of living history, divination, sex, solitude and amusement. She is America's only real rock n' roll schoolteacher. Lessons layered with profundity and protracted parallels. Where old world religion, Gertrude Stein and Oreo cookies co-exist in an actual and mystic world of wonder." --Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth "If Rebecca Brown's talent for prose were any tighter, it would be a lyric -- to a pop standard. An homage -- a menage -- to America, exposing what's laid bare in ... Read more
"Everything and nothing is sacred in Rebecca Brown's essays. Tongue, word, thought, and intellect all conspire in a free language love of living history, divination, sex, solitude and amusement. She is America's only real rock n' roll schoolteacher. Lessons layered with profundity and protracted parallels. Where old world religion, Gertrude Stein and Oreo cookies co-exist in an actual and mystic world of wonder." --Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth "If Rebecca Brown's talent for prose were any tighter, it would be a lyric -- to a pop standard. An homage -- a menage -- to America, exposing what's laid bare in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872864986
SKU
V9780872864986
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About Rebecca Brown
Rebecca Brown is the author of a dozen books of prose including THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU, THE END OF YOUTH, THE DOGS, THE TERRIBLE GIRLS (City Lights) and THE GIFTS OF THE BODY (HarperCollins). She recently co-edited, with Mary Jane Knecht, an anthology of writers' responses to work at the Frye Art Museum.
Reviews for American Romances
"Rebecca Brown's newest collection of short fiction pulses with desires that cannot be attained
knowledge, understanding, quiescence, and love. . . . The straightforward prose style belies Brown's penchant for brilliant narrative, which at any moment can turn from the gentle and intimate to the violent and bizarre." - Utne Reader "She is one of the few truly original modern lesbian ... Read more
knowledge, understanding, quiescence, and love. . . . The straightforward prose style belies Brown's penchant for brilliant narrative, which at any moment can turn from the gentle and intimate to the violent and bizarre." - Utne Reader "She is one of the few truly original modern lesbian ... Read more