Nicole Flattery
Autor/a de Show Them a Good Time
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My first impression was, how could anybody have been looking forward to this. Bleak with lack of agency most of the women in these stories lack that emotional-cultural connection sinew that couples, however painfully or clumsily, our inner life to the society of which we are a part. The language and some grim humor and the truth that the real world is mostly a fiction made by others keeps these readable, but well, this isn't the fun stuff.
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- Obres
- 2
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- 1
- Membres
- 166
- Popularitat
- #127,845
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 2
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- 19
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- 3
After a falling out with her best friend, Mae leaves high school and takes a job as a typist for Andy Warhol. She is eventually given the job of transcribing a series of tapes, recordings made of conversations among the denizens of Warhol's studio. Mae is always in the background, watching the glamorous people hang out, and she forms a friendship with the other woman also working to transcribe the tapes, a young runaway who is cagey about her past.
This is a coming of age story about a young woman who becomes a peripheral figure in Andy Warhol's milieu. She's also an observer, overlooked by everyone, occasionally going home with men who see her as enough part of that seemingly glamorous world. She's both eager to be part of it all, but too clear-eyed to delude herself or to fall prey to the more risky excesses, but she is, by the end, another teenage runaway in a city that is not known for kindness.… (més)