Pure Poetry: A Novel - Couverture souple

Kirshenbaum, Binnie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0743241827 ISBN 13 : 9780743241823

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2002

Synopsis

Meet Lila Moscowitz, a smart-mouthed, Jewish American beauty with a voracious appetite for sex, a remarkable talent for outrageous lies, and an unerring knack for screwing up her life. An accomplished poet, renowned for writing "smut and filth in "terza rima,"" she goes about her life in "Pure Poetry" with enough attitude and verve to win your heart forever. But since fleeing the all-consuming passion of her marriage to Max, the sexy German, she can no longer compose so much as a couplet; ghosts have taken over her Greenwich Village apartment, and the contrast between her feelings for her present lover and her former husband is breaking her heart. And neither her best friend, Carmen, nor her cross-dressing analyst, Leon, is able to soothe her angst over her impending thirty eighth birthday, an occasion fraught with a thirty-seven year tradition of emotional devastation. But time waits for no woman, and the dreaded birthday does bring insight: Love can be undone by the same desires that nurture it. Lila knows that she has got to take action, and in doing so she comes to realize some startling truths about herself, her capacity for love, and the nature of true freedom. Binnie Kirshenbaum's voice has been acclaimed by critics and readers alike. Already a bestselling author in Germany, Kirshenbaum demonstrates a brilliant maturity in "Pure Poetry." Not since Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying" has a novel so captured a woman's heart and desires. Readers will cheer "Pure Poetry" for its heady mix of humor and sadness, and for its slyly unsettling visions of modern life.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Meet Lila Moscowitz, a smart-mouthed, Jewish-American beauty with a voracious appetite for sex, a remarkable talent for outrageous lies, and an unerring knack for screwing up her life. A poet who writes ribald sonnets, the queen of self-possession, and the devastating comeback, Lila is used to men falling at her feet, and into her bed, but she's perplexed by her inability to find true happiness. As Lila reviews her life with her ex-husband and frets over her lack of feelings for her boyfriend, she comes to realise some startling truths about herself, her capacity for love and the nature of true freedom.
Binnie Kirshenbaum's writing has been acclaimed by critics and readers alike and the brilliant maturity she shows in PURE POETRY once again demostrates her magically touch. Not since Erica Jong's FEAR OF FLYING has a novel so captured a woman's heart and desires. Readers will cheer PURE POETRY for its heady mix of humour and sadness, and its slyly unsettling visions of modern life.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Binnie Kirshenbaum is a professor in the Writing Division of the Columbia University School of the Arts. She is the author of several highly acclaimed novels and has received a Critics' Choice Award and a Granta Best young American Novelist Award.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743241827
• ISBN 13: 9780743241823
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204