Kissssss: A Miscellany
This collectionderived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibilitycontains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life. Reality is rendered pitilessly real, and fantasy bares its teeth.
At once playful and devastatingly serious, the works in this collection employ a variety of formsgenres, anti-genres, fantasies, gameswhile highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks, are all used to chum the waters of imagination and truth.
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At once playful and devastatingly serious, the works in this collection employ a variety of formsgenres, anti-genres, fantasies, gameswhile highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks, are all used to chum the waters of imagination and truth.
Kissssss: A Miscellany
This collectionderived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibilitycontains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life. Reality is rendered pitilessly real, and fantasy bares its teeth.
At once playful and devastatingly serious, the works in this collection employ a variety of formsgenres, anti-genres, fantasies, gameswhile highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks, are all used to chum the waters of imagination and truth.
At once playful and devastatingly serious, the works in this collection employ a variety of formsgenres, anti-genres, fantasies, gameswhile highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks, are all used to chum the waters of imagination and truth.
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ISBN-13: | 9781573661393 |
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Publisher: | University of Alabama Press |
Publication date: | 12/23/2007 |
Edition description: | First Edition, First Edition |
Pages: | 312 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d) |
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