Motion Sickness (Masks) - Softcover

Tillman, Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185242219X ISBN 13: 9781852422196

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1991

Synopsis

Lynne Tillman plunges us in at the deep end. It is the end of the sixties. A time of theatre cooperatives, underground films and men: Johnny, Charles, Jack, Michael, Piet, Marty: 'James wore a wool robe and I wore a Japanese kimono that was always open to him.' It is a long way from New York. 'I couldn't understand why a man would want a woman in pain. I wasn't sophisticated about sado-masochism.' Over the years things change, but not that much. 'In the morning Steve tells me he's into being macho.' 'How do you mean?' I ask 'Well', he says, 'it's sort of feminism for men.' Lynne Tillman is a modern explorer, a writer hankering recklessly after every experience confirming her as a woman - her fictions are as carelessly intimate as a phone call as carefully cut as a film. With a sharp eye for the bizarre, she writes of the woman who spends all day parking her three cars, of what Marilyn Monroe would say today, of the true events surrounding the life of the reluctant Hollywood star Frances Farmer. Like the humour of fellow New Yorkers, Woody Allen and Laurie Anderson, the humour of Lynne Tillman is bitter-sweet, it reminds us that, appearances to the contrary, in reality things only get worse.

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Review

Literature is a quirky thing and, just when you start to believe it actually has been used up, along comes a writer whose work is so striking and original it transforms the way you see the world, the way you think about and interact with your surroundings... With the publication of her second novel, Motion Sickness, Tillman confirms her place as a major talent. Los Angeles Reader

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Praise for Lynne Tillman
"One of America's most challenging and adventurous writers." "Guardian"
"Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of minenot because I 'admire' her writing, (although I do, very, very much), but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That's how I feel..." Jonathan Safran Foer
"Like an acupuncturist, Lynne Tillman knows the precise points in which to sink her delicate probes. One of the biggest problems in composing fiction is understanding what to leave out; no one is more severe, more elegant, more shocking in her reticences than Tillman." Edmund White
Anything I ve read by Tillman I ve devoured. Anne K. Yoder, "The Millions"
"If I needed to name a book that is maybe the most overlooked important piece of fiction in not only the 00s, but in the last 50 years, [American Genius, A Comedy] might be the one. I could read this back to back to back for years." Blake Butler, "HTML Giant""

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 185242219X
• ISBN 13: 9781852422196
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208