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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Ordered this from Restless Books because the description was intriguing, and I was looking to read more Latin American authors. It is a ridiculous and unintended coincidence that this was the 69th book I read this year. This was a fascinating collection of essays from an intriguing author. The essay topics were varied but most touched on sex and gender -- but there is also the prison system, immigration and identity, contemplation of death, and parenting. It's hard to identify stand-outs because I feel like I'd be listing most of the essays. I did wish sometimes for a little more context -- a foreword or afterword with a little biographical info to connect the spaces in between the essays (most of which were incredibly personal) and for some information about the publications she wrote for -- the way some of her more "scandalous" pieces were received. I loved the honesty and vulnerability in her writing, the strength of her voice, her openness to new ideas, experiences, viewpoints. I would love to learn more about Wiener and read more of her writing. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"In fierce and sumptuous first-person accounts, renowned Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener records infiltrating the most dangerous Peruvian prison, participating in sexual exchanges in swingers clubs, traveling the dark paths of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris in the company of transvestites and prostitutes, undergoing a complicated process of egg donation, and participating in a ritual of ayahuasca ingestion in the Amazon jungle--all while taking us on inward journeys that explore immigration, maternity, fear of death, ugliness, and threesomes. Fortunately, our eagle-eyed voyeur emerges from her narrative forays unscathed and ready to take on the kinks, obsessions, and messiness of our lives. Sexographies is an eye-opening, kamikaze journey across the contours of the human body and mind"--Back cover. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The first piece, an embedded week with a self-described sex guru and his seven wives (all of whom work to provide her with orgasms) is pure genius. It turns out to be the best piece in the collection, followed by her coverage of Isabel Allende. The last piece, about an abusive relationship she had and about gender violence was the weakest by far. In the middle, there are essays of varying quality. For the most part, I preferred her essays about everyday life. Her daughter is charming, and their life together (and with her husband who is a saint and/or a masochist) is interesting and often touching. The stories about her experiences vary in quality. There is a brief and very funny piece about female ejaculation and as a counterbalance a terrible piece about self-help seminars and a worse one about doing ayahuasca. The good is very good, the bad is very bad, the self-contempt hurts about the same amount as the self-aggrandizement/contempt for those who see the world differently from her (which honestly has got to be most people.) I am going with a 3-star though few if any of the essays are average, but there is a pretty equal balance of 2-star and 4-star material. ( )