Notes
Grainy and stripped gritty novel tracing the downbeat progress of a Catholic, working-class lesbian coming of age in Boston ... more
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.
Collection
Call number
F MYL
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Awards
Publishing Triangle Awards (Finalist — 2001)
Publication
Soft Skull Press (2017), Edition: 3, 208 pages
Physical description
196 p.; 23 cm