Torpor
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A01=Chris Kraus
Aliens and Anorexia
Author_Chris Kraus
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Chris Kraus
confessional writing
Dick Hebdige
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feminism
Feminist
I love dick
Jill Soloway
Kevin Bacon
marital breakdown
Marital problems
Sylvere Lotringer
Product details
- ISBN 9781781258989
- Weight: 221g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 04 May 2017
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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It's Summer, 1991, the dawning of the New World Order; a post-MTV, pre-AOL generation. Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green, two former New Yorkers who can no longer afford an East Village apartment, set off on a journey across the entire former Soviet Bloc with the intention of adopting a Romanian orphan.
Unflinchingly dark, hilarious and moving - Torpor is at once a satire and philosophy of cultural history, social identity and failing relationships. Dipping into the trajectory of a life at different moments, Kraus interrogates convention and emotion, creating characters that are flawed, witty, and altogether true to life.
Part prequel, part sequel, Torpor continues a project of life-writing; personal, unsparing, and triumphant. If I Love Dick is the book of your 20s, Torpor is the book of your 30s.
Chris Kraus' previous works include Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick and Summer of Hate, as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs. An Amazon Prime TV series for I Love Dick, starring Kevin Bacon, is coming in 2017. A Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles.
