As Seen on TV Provocations,9781582341538

As Seen on TV Provocations

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9781582341538
ISBN10: 1582341532
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-07-06
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury USA
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Summary

From the author of the unforgettableAutobiography of A Facecomes a collection of wonderfully unexpected essays on life, love, sex, God and politics. Whether she is contemplating promiscuity orThe New Testament, lamenting about what she should have said to Oprah, or learning to tango, Grealy seduces and surprises the reader at every turn. With the sheer brilliance of her imagination, Grealy leads us on delightful journeys with her wit, unflinching honesty and peerless intelligence.As Seen On TVbreaks the mould of the essay, and is destined, like the memoir that preceded it, to become a modern classic.

Author Biography

Lucy Grealy is an award-winning poet and author of the highly acclaimed memoir, Autobiography of a Face (New York Times Notable Book of the Year). She lives in New York City and is currently working on a novel.

Table of Contents

You are Here; A Map to this Book
1(4)
As Seen on TV
5(16)
Nerve
21(8)
Mirrorings
29(18)
What it Takes
47(14)
Fool in Boots
61(8)
The Country of Childhood
69(12)
My God
81(18)
A Brief Sketch of Myself at Fourteen
99(10)
Written in Four Voices for the Hungry Mind Review Issue on Regional Writing
109(6)
The Story so Far
115(18)
The Right Language
133(8)
The Present Tense
141(8)
Twin World
149(10)
The Girls
159(8)
The Yellow House
167

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