Live Girls: A Novel - Hardcover

Nugent, Beth

 
9780679419785: Live Girls: A Novel
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679419780 ISBN 13: 9780679419785
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Live Girls is the story of Catherine, in her twenties, who sells tickets in a run-down porn theater in a decrepit port city. A sign in the window of the seedy hotel where she lives reads Transients Welcome. Her only friend is Jerome, an anorexic drag queen who searches for love among the sailors.
As Catherine and Jerome set out for Hollywood, we witness - with equal horror and fascination - their desperate attempt to find redemption in a world that offers them so little.
In haunting, stylized prose, Nugent takes us deep into her protagonist's psyche while painting a bizarre - yet oddly familiar - picture of a dissociated, disconnected America. Live Girls is a tour de force that will leave no one who reads it unshaken.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Beth Nugent received an MFA from the University of Iowa. She teaches at the University of Denver. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street.

Beth Nugent teaches at the University of Denver.

Aus dem Klappentext

r critically acclaimed collection of short stories, City of Boys, Beth Nugent brings her dark and eerie vision to a powerful first novel.<br><br>Live Girls is the story of Catherine, in her twenties, who sells tickets in a run-down porn theater in a decrepit port city, A sign in the window of the seedy hotel where she lives reads Transients Welcome. Her only friend is Jerome, an anorexic drag queen who searches for love among the sailors.<br><br>As Catherine and Jerome set out for Hollywood, we witness -with equal horror and fascination -- their desperate attempt to find redemption in a world that offers them so little.<br><br>In haunting, stylized prose, Nugent takes us deep into her protagonist's psyche while painting a bizarre -- yet oddly familiar -- picture of a dissociated, disconnected America. Live Girls is a tour de force that will leave no one who reads it unshaken.

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Verlag
Alfred A. Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679419780
ISBN 13 
9780679419785
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
197
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