Bukowski in a Sundress - 9780143128465
Un libro in lingua di Kim Addonizio edito da Penguin Group USA, 2016
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A dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more
Kim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of provocative poems and stories, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as “Charles Bukowski in a sundress.” (“Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu?” she muses.) Now, in this utterly original memoir in essays, she opens up to chronicle the joys and indignities in the life of a writer wandering through middle age.
Addonizio vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the road—from a champagne-and-vodka-fueled one-night stand at a writing conference to sparsely attended readings at remote Midwestern colleges. Her crackling, unfiltered wit brings colorful life to pieces like “What Writers Do All Day,” “How to Fall for a Younger Man,” and “Necrophilia” (that is, sexual attraction to men who are dead inside). And she turns a tender yet still comic eye to her family: her father, who sparked her love of poetry; her mother, a former tennis champion who struggled through Parkinson’s at the end of her life; and her daughter, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written for Penthouse.
At once intimate and outrageous, Addonizio’s memoir radiates all the wit and heartbreak and ever-sexy grittiness that her fans have come to love—and that new readers will not soon forget.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Bukowski in a Sundress
- Sottotitolo: Confessions from a Writing Life
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Kim Addonizio
- Editore: Penguin Group USA
- Collana: Penguin Group USA (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 21 Giugno '16
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : Women authors, American 20th century Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. bisacs LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. bisacs
- Pagine: 205
- Dimensioni mm: 203 x 133 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0143128469
- EAN-13: 9780143128465