Status
Checked out
Publication
Soft Skull Press (2000), Edition: 1st, 196 pages
Description
"A cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant-garde."--The New York TimesWhy 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.
User reviews
LibraryThing member suesbooks
This is not my style of book. I realize that Myles was an "other" in many ways, and this is her way to show it, but I found it boring and repetitous.
Awards
Publishing Triangle Awards (Finalist — 2001)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
196 p.; 5.98 inches
ISBN
188712859X / 9781887128599