| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 363 pages ; 24 cm |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
On Not Becoming a Lesbian -- Now, Voyeur: The Erotic Life of Movies -- Extramarital Cravings -- A Taste of the Stick: Joel and Hedda, 1988 -- Desperately Seeking Torture: S and M on the Internet -- Spanking: A Romance -- Coda -- Ready, Willing, and Wary -- Secrets of a Pregnant Woman -- The Knight in Shining Armani -- My Kingdom for a Scarf -- A Complicated Friendship: Remembering Diana Trilling -- On Not Attending My College Reunion -- Notes of a Lonely White Woman -- Dancing with My Daughter -- In the Country of Divorce -- O Whither Has Thou Led Me, Egypt? -- The Fate of Richard Burton -- How Dreary to Be Nobody -- Clean Streets: Martin Scorsese Among the Gentry -- Mailer at Sea: The Writer as Director -- In Search of Adam Duritz -- Postscript -- Acting the Victim: Claire Bloom vs. Philip Roth -- These Unhappy Breasts -- The Pursuit of Thin -- Donna Karan's World -- Am I Tan Enough? -- The Shoplifter's High -- The Talking Cure Blues. |
| Summary |
Few writers today have created more stir than Daphne Merkin - admired as much for her personal daring on the page as for the wit and power of her prose. Whether writing about the sexual pleasures of spanking (a piece that elicited a storm of response when it appeared in The New Yorker), losing her religion, her obsession with rock 'n' roll, her own failed marriage, or other vexed subjects, she is always tough-minded, compulsively readable, and at times recklessly candid. From her own cosmetic surgery "fix" to her flirtation with the idea of lesbianism, from the subversive thrill of shoplifting to the hidden madness of family life - she takes on the taboos and sacred cows we're fascinated by but seldom talk about. |
| Subject |
Essays.
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst00915437
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Merkin, Daphne. Dreaming of Hitler. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, ©1997 (OCoLC)645852706 |
| ISBN |
0517706261 (alk. paper) |
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9780517706268 (alk. paper) |
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