Author : Steve Katz
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 1573661392
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)
Book Synopsis Kissssss by : Steve Katz
Download or read book Kissssss written by Steve Katz and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007-12-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection—derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility—contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life. Reality is rendered pitilessly real, and fantasy bares its teeth. At once playful and devastatingly serious, the works in this collection employ a variety of forms—genres, anti-genres, fantasies, games—while highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks, are all used to chum the waters of imagination and truth.