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Nicholas Christopher author of "A Trip to the Stars""Pure Poetry" is a terrific novel, with a deliciously strong voice, finely wrought characters, and a sure narrative touch. Binnie Kirshenbaum has a musical ear and a wicked wit, and she employs them with wonderful modulation in creating a remarkable world all her own. A novelist with an enormous European following, with this book -- multifaceted and polished as a gem -- Ms. Kirshenbaum ought to find the corresponding audience in the U.S.A. that she so clearly deserves.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz author of "Leaving Brooklyn" Binnie Kirshenbaum has a wonderful gift for turning cliches inside out and making conventional wisdom run for cover. How nice, for instance, to have a swaggering, foul mouthed, wacky, predatory female poet as heroine for a change! But beneath "Pure Poetry's" outrageous humor and assaults on political correctness runs a current of intractable pain, gallantly faced. This fiercely clever writer is a true anarchic spirit.
Maureen Howard author of "A Lover's Almanac" Binnie Kirshenbaum has created a memorable heroine, witty and too wise for her own good. An original and striking performance: Kirshenbaum writes boldly and honestly about sex, race, class, and a woman's lonely pursuit of a place to call home. Line by beautifully written line, this novel is funny, but in the end, the journey to self-discovery is deeply moving.
Sara Lewis author of "Heart Conditions" Binnie Kirshenbaum is one of a few true originals in American fiction. This book will take your breath away. On the one hand, "Pure Poetry" is a funny, heartbreaking, can't put-it-down page-turner that you'll want to devour in one greedy gulp. On the other hand, you'll want to slowly savor its many layers of meaning, subtle insights, and deep observations. Like your best friends, its main character, Lila Moscowitz, i's a unique, flawed, and complicated character you'll love forever. Read this book, and you'll thank your lucky stars that you have both Lila and Binnie in your life.
Laurie Stone, author of "Laughing in the Dark and Close to the Bone;" long time critic for "The Village Voice" Pure Poetry is a joke of a title, for Binnie Kirshenbaum's funny, sad novel is delightfully ragged and raw and piercingly aware of ambivalence that can't be resolved. Lila escapes life as a suburban princess only to feel herself becoming an urban Camille. But there's too much Lenny Bruce in her for that. This book is a joyous, sexy anatomy of melancholy.
Norman Mailer Not many young female novelists can deal with sex, the appetite for it, and the loss of such appetite with as much candor, lack of self-protection, and humor as Binnie Kirshenbaum.
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz author of "Leaving Brooklyn" Binnie Kirshenbaum has a wonderful gift for turning cliches inside out and making conventional wisdom run for cover. How nice, for instance, to have a swaggering, foul mouthed, wacky, predatory female poet as heroine for a change! But beneath "Pure Poetry's" outrageous humor and assaults on political correctness runs a current of intractable pain, gallantly faced. This fiercely clever writer is a true anarchic spirit.
Maureen Howard author of "A Lover's Almanac" Binnie Kirshenbaum has created a memorable heroine, witty and too wise for her own good. An original and striking performance: Kirshenbaum writes boldly and honestly about sex, race, class, and a woman's lonely pursuit of a place to call home. Line by beautifully written line, this novel is funny, but in the end, the journey to self-discovery is deeply moving.
Sara Lewis author of "Heart Conditions" Binnie Kirshenbaum is one of a few true originals in American fiction. This book will take your breath away. On the one hand, "Pure Poetry" is a funny, heartbreaking, can't put-it-down page-turner that you'll want to devour in one greedy gulp. On the other hand, you'll want to slowly savor its many layers of meaning, subtle insights, and deep observations. Like your best friends, its main character, Lila Moscowitz, i's a unique, flawed, and complicated character you'll love forever. Read this book, and you'll thank your lucky stars that you have both Lila and Binnie in your life.
Laurie Stone, author of "Laughing in the Dark and Close to the Bone;" long time critic for "The Village Voice" Pure Poetry is a joke of a title, for Binnie Kirshenbaum's funny, sad novel is delightfully ragged and raw and piercingly aware of ambivalence that can't be resolved. Lila escapes life as a suburban princess only to feel herself becoming an urban Camille. But there's too much Lenny Bruce in her for that. This book is a joyous, sexy anatomy of melancholy.
Norman Mailer Not many young female novelists can deal with sex, the appetite for it, and the loss of such appetite with as much candor, lack of self-protection, and humor as Binnie Kirshenbaum.
Binnie Kirshenbaum is an adjunct professor in the Writing Division of the Columbia University School of the Arts. The author of History on a Personal Note, A Disturbance in One Place, and On Mermaid Avenue, she received the Critics' Choice Award for fiction in 1996 and was a regional winner of Granta's Best Young American Novelists Award. She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0684864711
- ISBN 13 9780684864716
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages203
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