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WHAT PURPOSE DID I SERVE IN YOUR LIFE By Marie Calloway **Mint Condition**
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like new
- Seller notes
- ISBN-10
- 0985023589
- Publication Name
- Tyrant Books
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780985023584
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Tyrant Books
ISBN-10
0985023589
ISBN-13
9780985023584
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143619036
Product Key Features
Book Title
What Purpose Did I Serve in Your Life
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Erotica / General, Contemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
25 oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
It's a perfectly captured internal life: Contradictory, maddening, maudlin, desperate, pleased, pleasure-seeking. Maybe that's got something to do with the nasty responses Calloway generates: If you're not happy living with the mess in your own head, chances are you'll hate living with the voices in Calloway's head. - The Stranger
Table Of Content
1. Losing Your Virginity 2. First Zuihitsu 3. Sex Work: Sex Work Experience 1/Sex Work Experience 2/Sex Work Experience 3 4. Second Zuihitsu 5. Relationships: The Irish Photographer/Adrien Brody/Jeremy Lin 6. collages
Synopsis
what purpose did i serve in your life is such a unique document that I have no idea if she could ever repeat its success. But she has gone all the way. She has not chickened out. She wrote the story she was given down to the bone. That's what real artists do. It's maybe the most surprising triumph to emerge from the literature of disaffection: What purpose did i serve in your life is the real thing." -Esquire Magazine The experience of reading what purpose did i serve in your life , which rides the line between performed and genuine vapidity and malign naivete so closely that the distinction between them blurs, is by turns dull, titillating, appalling, riveting, and as head-spinning, in Hoberman's phrase, as "a hall of mirrors in which Girl Power and female powerlessness are endlessly reflected." It is not, in other words, easy to turn away from. Easier, perhaps, to catch a shattered glance of oneself. -Slate Graphic, disturbing, enlightening and heart-warming (in its own weird way). --USA Today I have never read a book like this before. It's painful, shocking, and compellingly written, composed with great sensitivity to which details should be revealed and which must stay concealed. Its genre-muddle and formal complexity make for a completely unforgettable, profoundly contemporary, and plainly great work of courage and art. Here's a terrifying proposal: could this be The Great American Novel for the twilight of "Great" America?" - Sheila Heti (author of "How Should a Person Be?") Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure. -Edmund White "This society hates feelings," Kathy Acker said about a million times. A chain of regulation controls us by making us fear that we will be expelled from the human club for being the wrong kind of person. Marie Calloway breaks that chain of regulation by displaying her body like a beggar displays her wounds, by asserting awkwardness and shame (for the body, for ambition). Her book should be called, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Who Can't Be Controlled. Or is she the fiction, Holden Caulfield, Lolita, or Mme. Merteuil? How does a questing intelligence live inside the commodity?--searching for identity or personal branding? And if she is an attention whore, am I the attention john? Yes--but Calloway wonders as strongly as I do about what she might be, and she invites misunderstanding into her work. One thing is certain, though--She can really write about sex -Robert Gluck what purpose did i serve in your life is moving, unprecedented, threatening, and surreal--the exciting, rare work of someone with nothing to lose. It's intuitive and overpowering, concise and extreme. And, like a plant or a comet, it doesn't pause to explain what it's doing, defend or rationalize its existence, or attempt to obscure or distort its intentions. If you're attentive toward it--and earnest and open-minded and non-malicious in your attention--you will likely question and examine what you yourself are doing and why, and how to change." --Tao Lin, By the author of "Adrien Brody," the controversial Internet piece, Marie Calloway effaces the boundary between life and narrative., what purpose did i serve in your life is such a unique document that I have no idea if she could ever repeat its success. But she has gone all the way. She has not chickened out. She wrote the story she was given down to the bone. That's what real artists do. It's maybe the most surprising triumph to emerge from the literature of disaffection: What purpose did i serve in your life is the real thing." -Esquire Magazine The experience of reading what purpose did i serve in your life , which rides the line between performed and genuine vapidity and malign naiveté so closely that the distinction between them blurs, is by turns dull, titillating, appalling, riveting, and as head-spinning, in Hoberman's phrase, as "a hall of mirrors in which Girl Power and female powerlessness are endlessly reflected." It is not, in other words, easy to turn away from. Easier, perhaps, to catch a shattered glance of oneself. -Slate Graphic, disturbing, enlightening and heart-warming (in its own weird way). --USA Today I have never read a book like this before. It's painful, shocking, and compellingly written, composed with great sensitivity to which details should be revealed and which must stay concealed. Its genre-muddle and formal complexity make for a completely unforgettable, profoundly contemporary, and plainly great work of courage and art. Here's a terrifying proposal: could this be The Great American Novel for the twilight of "Great" America?" - Sheila Heti (author of "How Should a Person Be?") Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure. -Edmund White "This society hates feelings," Kathy Acker said about a million times. A chain of regulation controls us by making us fear that we will be expelled from the human club for being the wrong kind of person. Marie Calloway breaks that chain of regulation by displaying her body like a beggar displays her wounds, by asserting awkwardness and shame (for the body, for ambition). Her book should be called, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Who Can't Be Controlled. Or is she the fiction, Holden Caulfield, Lolita, or Mme. Merteuil? How does a questing intelligence live inside the commodity?--searching for identity or personal branding? And if she is an attention whore, am I the attention john? Yes--but Calloway wonders as strongly as I do about what she might be, and she invites misunderstanding into her work. One thing is certain, though--She can really write about sex! -Robert Gluck what purpose did i serve in your life is moving, unprecedented, threatening, and surreal--the exciting, rare work of someone with nothing to lose. It's intuitive and overpowering, concise and extreme. And, like a plant or a comet, it doesn't pause to explain what it's doing, defend or rationalize its existence, or attempt to obscure or distort its intentions. If you're attentive toward it--and earnest and open-minded and non-malicious in your attention--you will likely question and examine what you yourself are doing and why, and how to change." --Tao Lin
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- 8***g (252)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseA smooth and professional transaction throughout. The item was exactly as described, clearly listed, and fairly priced. Communication from the seller was prompt, polite, and helpful, with dispatch confirmed quickly. The parcel was securely packaged and arrived in excellent condition, ahead of the expected delivery date. Care was taken at every stage of the process. I would be happy to buy from this seller again—many thanks for a reliable and well-handled sale.FINLAND AND EUROPE: INTERNATIONAL CRISES IN THE PERIOD OF By Juhani Paasivirta (#335694307643)
- a***2 (13)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem was shipped quickly and packaged well. Item was exactly as described, brand new and it was even sealed. The seller also messaged me as soon as the purchase went through so communication was great. This was the last book in the series that I needed and to be able to find it in such great condition and at a great cost was unexpected. Highly recommend this seller and will definitely buy from again in the future.
- e***2 (1298)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseMint condition and brand new, at the most competitive price. Top customer service, which includes: communication, professional packaging which protected the dust cover from bending and corners from bumping. Speedy shipping and delivery from across the country. A highly recommended seller with whom I would easily shop again. Thank you!