A Crack Up at the Race Riots

Korine, Harmony

ISBN 10: 0385485883 / ISBN 13: 9780385485883

Published by Doubleday, New York, 1998

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True first edition as stated, first printing with full number line ending in "1". A fine clean tight unmarked copy in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Uncommon in this first printing, this US edition precedes the UK edition by a year. Seller Inventory # 003500

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Crack Up at the Race Riots

Publisher: Doubleday, New York

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The original Ritalin kid, Harmony Korine burst on the scene with Kids, a film so gritty and unsettling in its depiction of teen life that it was slapped with an NC-17 rating and banned in some theaters across the country. In some ways, the media frenzy over the rating overshadowed the harrowing portrait of teenagers destroying their lives and the then twenty-one-year-old screenwriter who created them. "Whether you see the movie as a masterpiece or as sensationalism," wrote Lynn Hirshberg, "the movie is relentless and brilliant and extremely disturbing. It's powerful-both steel-eyed and sexy; horrifying and captivating."
Now, in this first book of fictional set pieces, Korine captures the fragmented moments of a life observed through the demented lens of media, TV, and teen obsession. Korine reinvents the novel in this highly experimental montage of scenes that seem both real and surreal at the same time. With a filmmaker's eye and a prankster's glee, this bizarre collection of jokes, half-remembered scenes, dialogue fragments, movie ideas, and suicide notes is an episodic, epigrammatic lovesong to the world of images. Korine is the voice of his media-savvy generation and A Crack-Up at the Race Riots is the satiric lovechild of his dark imagination.

Review:

'Like all of Korine's work, it is a rare collision of fun, f**ked, funny, sad and bizarre - the kind of thing you pick up every so often just to buzz your brain.' Vice

'It is an antinovel in the way that his films are anti-films. It falls into the classification of books without classification. It fits neatly into Korine's aesthetic and wider body of work.' --The Quietus