Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature - Softcover

Allison, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563410443 ISBN 13: 9781563410444

Publisher: Firebrand Books, 2005

Synopsis

Compelling collection of autobiographical narratives, essays, and performance pieces They don't write much better than this.

About this title

About the Author:

Dorothy Allison describes herself as a feminist, a working-class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet and a happily born-again Californian. Awarded the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, Allison is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Allison's short story collection, Trash (1988) was published by Firebrand Books. Trash won two Lambda Literary Awards and the American Library Association Prize for Lesbian and Gay Writing. Allison's novel Bastard Out of Carolina, (1992) was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. The novel won the Ferro Grumley prize, an ALA Award for Lesbian and Gay Writing, became a best seller, and an award-winning movie. Cavedweller (1998) became a national bestseller, New York Times Notable book of the year, finalist for the Lillian Smith prize, and an ALA prizewinner.

Synopsis:

In this collection of essays, autobiographical narratives and performance pieces, the author probes the meaning of all these identities with humour, passion and conviction, as she works out what it means to be queer and happy in a world still arguing about what it means to be queer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Firebrand Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1563410443
• ISBN 13: 9781563410444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 261