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Title: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature by Dorothy Allison ISBN: 1-56341-044-3 Publisher: Firebrand Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essays on class, racism, sexuality, and literature
Comment: The extraordinary Dorothy Allison can write fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essays. Skin is her contribution to the essay genre, a collection of two dozen bits of astute rambling across a crazy quilt of subjects stitched together by the fierce honesty her readers have come to expect from all of her writing. Coming from a poor white trash family in South Carolina, she traveled beyond her origins thanks to a rampant intelligence that nothing could dull. A feminist before the word was invented, Allison is also a proud card-carrying lesbian, a writer, mentor, teacher, lecturer, and a woman who is always generous to other writers. Skin deals more explicitly and in greater depth with erotica and sexuality than her other works, so readers would do well to be forewarned. But if you're a Dorothy Allison fan, this is NOT a book to be missed.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book about SEX!
Comment: An opportunity to get thinking about a few "difficult" subjects, while enjoying a few refreshing lines of thought as well as a no-nonense yet witty style.Being a woman, gay or poor not a requisite, although it might help. If you're neither of the three, buy the book anyway, you might learn something (I did).
Rating: 5
Summary: Words flew off the page and wrapped around my soul.
Comment: Not since Andrea Dworkin's "Woman Hating" (that I read in 1978) have I been so moved by the truth of another writer that I would want to emulate it. In sharing Harris's vision of writing as an "uncompromising revolutionary act" the point is made that the mainstream literary world as well as the "so-called avant-garde and burgeoning feminist critical aristocracy" will not appreciate the lesbian writer who "refuses to obey the rules." To both women, nothing is more important than telling the truth, "refusing all categories, all who would shape your writing to their own use."
"Yes!" I cried, " The End.
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Title: Trash: Stories by Dorothy Allison ISBN: 0452283515 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison ISBN: 0452273404 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison ISBN: 0452269571 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry 1980-1990 by Dorothy Allison ISBN: 0932379982 Publisher: Firebrand Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison ISBN: 0452279690 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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