Cool for You

Eileen Myles

Publisher:
Soft Skull Press
“A cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant-garde.”―The New York Times Why can’t I live right now. Because I am not rich, I am not a saint. But I do know this: not all of us were sent here to work. The first published novel of legendary poet and performer Eileen Myles follows a queer female growing up in working-class Boston, straining against the institutions that hold her: family, Catholic school, jobs at a camp, at a nursing home, at a school for developmentally disabled adult males. Free-ranging and deadpan, tragic and joyful, this is a book about women, gender, class, bodies, escape, and what it means to be “inside.” Never more relevant, and now with an introduction by Chris Kraus.
Year
2017
Length
208 pages.
Cover
Paperback
Binding
Perfect binding
Dimensions
15,2 x 22,9 cm.

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