For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs - Softcover

Rooney, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582435456 ISBN 13: 9781582435459

Publisher: Catapult, 2009

Synopsis

In this collection about life as a twentysomething in the twenty-first century, Kathleen Rooney writes with the finesse of someone well beyond her years, but with fresh insights that reveal a girl still making discoveries at every turn. Varied and original, the tales in For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs recount the perils of falling in love with the unlikeliest of people, of visiting the New York apartments of a vanished poet, and of touring an animal retirement home with her parents. Of getting a Brazilian wax, and of chauffeuring a U.S. senator around town. Of saying good-bye to a cousin who's joining a convent, and of trying to convince herself that she's not wasting her life. This is a book about love and longing, poetry and plagiarism, death and democracy, mountain floods and Midwestern cicadas. Here is a young woman struggling to find her place as an adult and a citizen in an America that rarely manages to live up to Whitman's dream of it. With this book, Rooney singsĀ yes, in fact, she trillsĀ loud and clear.

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Review:

Praise for "Live Nude Girl"

"This esoteric, organic meditation on life as an art object is itself a model of personal writing, perfect for those on either side of the easel." "--Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

"Rooney . . . explores the territory between female beauty and intelligence, art and pornography, object and observer--even the border between life and death--with insight and passion." "--The Los Angeles Times"
Praise for Live Nude Girl

"This esoteric, organic meditation on life as an art object is itself a model of personal writing, perfect for those on either side of the easel." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Rooney . . . explores the territory between female beauty and intelligence, art and pornography, object and observer--even the border between life and death--with insight and passion." --The Los Angeles Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Catapult
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1582435456
• ISBN 13: 9781582435459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256