White Girls |
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Author:
| Als, Hilton |
ISBN: | 978-1-940450-25-4 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2014 |
Publisher: | McSweeney's Publishing
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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White Girls, Hilton Alsa s first book since The Women sixteen years ago, finds one of the New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of a white girls,a as Als dubs thema an More Description
White Girls, Hilton Alsa s first book since The Women sixteen years ago, finds one of the New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of a white girls,a as Als dubs thema an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Michael Jackson and Flannery Oa Connor. In pieces that hairpin between critique and meditation, fiction and nonfiction, high culture and low, the theoretical and the deeply personal, Als presents a stunning portrait of a writer by way of his subjects, and an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.