Cool For You
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.56 (700 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 188712859X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"one of the savviest voices and most restless intellects in contemporary lit." -Dennis Cooper; "Part manifesto in a deadpan style with absurdly funny episodes follows a unique trajectory in pursuit of the surprising and new."-Time Out New York"
Eileen Myles has published twenty books of poetry, art journalism, and fiction and libretti. She's a Guggenheim Fellow, has received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America and a Lambda Award for lesbian fiction, and was named to the Whiting/Slate Second Novel List. She lives in Marfa, Texas, and New York.. She also received an arts writers grant from
Eileen Myles is a genius!” Dorothy Allison. Grainy and stripped, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a girl growing up in working-class Boston
National Treasure: Custodian of Consciousness M. Ewert Eileen Myles's Cool For You rocks so hard it hurts. Like most memoirs, it's moving, and often sad, but where other books devolve into wee wistful prettiness, Cool For You stays rigorous- like a breaststroke, performed again, and again, and again.Ms Myles inhabits several different descriptors- Irish Catholic, working class, lesbian, alcoholic- which she refuses to codify into "identities", though illumines beautifully nonetheless. It's embarrassing to admit, bu. Daniel Olivas said Cool for Us. Too many novels/memoirs get lost in pretty words and pat observations which lead to little or no insight into the "real" author. Eileen Myles doesn't play this game. Memories of sexual experiences, horrible jobs, too much booze, and a family life that doesn't resemble reruns of Ozzie and Harriet spill onto the page without artifice and without regard for chronology. The result is a dizzying, beautiful, tough and honest view into one woman's life. I couldn't sto. Portrait of an Artist-American A Customer Proof that the best novelists are poets, Myles's Cool for You combines an artist's interior flood of sensations and a regular citizen's attempt to piece together the story of her institutionalized grandmother. Cool for You is too insightful to be lumped with memoirs. (In fact, it's categorized as a novel.) It's everything Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is touted as being, but Myles outmuscles, out-testosterones, and plain out-does sterile Joyce. There's