Miranda Popkey
Autore di Topics of Conversation
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: from author's website
Opere di Miranda Popkey
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1987
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Santa Cruz, California, USA
- Istruzione
- Yale University (BA)
Washington University in St. Louis (MFA)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Debut Authors (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 254
- Popolarità
- #90,187
- Voto
- 3.1
- Recensioni
- 16
- ISBN
- 9
- Lingue
- 1
First as a young woman babysitting and talking to a friend's mother who is relating the story of her response to a rape by her first husband. Next, the narrator's own sexual violence with a professor, then on to a time when she hooks up with a stranger, a scary business man wearing mid-level suit and tie, in his room where he keeps her prone under his huge, hairy hand for twenty-minutes, no sex. There is a realistic witness account of Norman Mailer's behavior toward his wife, Adele. We move on through other experiences of the narrator, her friends, her mother, all of which present a passive attitude, rape fantasy, and finally, single motherhood. But it wasn't the topics that held me rapt so much as the storytelling, the narrator's art as she says. I couldn't stop listening and each of the topics of conversation offered enough to keep me enthralled. I also liked the boozy descriptions, the sunsetting sky "the color of Macallan's scotch straight, no water. The rosiness matching a glass of summer rose." And always the bourbon in the coffee thermos, or the hidden bottle, the gin-and-tonics mounting as her mom pours yet another drink and talks about sex with her Freudiand therapist who "cured" her of her frigidity. The book begs for a book club conversation.… (altro)