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From the award-winning author of God's Ear: A "wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist" satire of religion and gender politics (The New York Times Book Review). Call Me Ishtar is the outrageous manifesto of a goddess determined to right the wrongs of the three-thousand-year-old patriarchy. She is Ishtar: Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, Angel of Death, and Whore of Babylon, and, returning to earth in this most recent incarnation, suburban housewife and sexual subversive. Gallivanting through upstate New York, Ishtar breaks into a Hostess factory to taint its products, catapults a rock band to stardom via satanic rituals, and rises from the coffin at her own funeral--all to overthrow the worship of phallic gods and resume her former glory in this "bouncy, tongue-in-cheek mythmash of The White Goddess and The Feminine Mystique" (Kirkus Reviews). "[Lerman's] is a unique voice--wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist at the same time." --The New York Times Book Review Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Ishtar, Queen of heaven, has come again in the guise of a housewife and rock band manager in New York state in the 1960s. She speaks of her powerful past and limited present. Well, maybe not all that limited.
She comes across convincingly as a real goddess and not as a deluded modern, no matter how many fantastic things happen because of her. Cupcake factories are invaded, a Bar Mitzvah is deconstructed, PTA meetings end badly, a marriage counselor fails to have her committed. And there is the sex. This was one of the first novels where a female character tells the kind of tales that men had been telling all along about their desires and failures and conquests.
We learn much about true history and myth, what really happened before patriarchy had changed the telling to make all the heroes into men or male gods. ( )