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Title: The Terrible Girls by Rebecca Brown ISBN: 0-87286-266-6 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: July, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Surreal
Comment: Rebecca Brown is one of the most original writers I have read in a long time. Her writing is intense and succint and the environments and situations she crafts surreal. I think that for the mere fact that her work is good she would appeal to a wide audience.
More specifically and at the risk of pigeon-holing her and her work, which again is unlike much else that I have encountered, she is one of the best lesbian writers out there right now. There's so much generic fiction being put out by indie alt publishers (they are SO important, I'm a huge supporter, achieving and maintaining visibility in the arts is so crucial to the effort of attaining similiarly in the wider world, but they can and should have standards - if it's one good novel, it will stand out and be infinitely more important then 30,000 poorly written and edited texts that tell us nothing new in the same old cliched language)- Brown's work is intelligently conceived and beautifully written. It is also challenging, but all great literature tends to be - give her a try - I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Rating: 2
Summary: If you have time and nerve...
Comment: ... you will want to set aside a good deal of time to try and absorb the many layers of this book. It is an attempt to cry out against female opression but is a failed attempt due to the complexity of layers that can only be absorbed by multiple reads. But the book is not good enough to reread and the comparisons are too far-fetched in an unpleasant way. Maybe I will change my mind tomorrow but I doubt it. Brown overvoices and fails her cause, making this novel an excellent example of 'camp' art.
If you do read it, it must be read in order and the entire set of stories has to be read because they all relate to each other. The final story ties the previous stories toegther but really cannot stand alone. No single story here has the merit to stand alone but they work as a collection.
Rating: 5
Summary: terrible girls are terribly great!
Comment: this book rocked my world. the pomo style follows in the lesbianlit footsteps of monique wittig. thank god there's more than the well of loneliness out there.
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Title: The End of Youth by Rebecca Brown ISBN: 0872864189 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown ISBN: 0060926538 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 13 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary by Rebecca Brown ISBN: 0872863441 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Prepare for War by Rebecca Brown ISBN: 0883683245 Publisher: Whitaker House Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0679744479 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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