All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
✍ Scribed by Massey, Alana
- Book ID
- 109520325
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 388 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781455565887
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
"Alana Massey's prose is to brutal honesty what a mandolin is to a butter knife: she's sharper; she slices thinner; she shows the cross-section of a truth so deftly --so powerfully and cannily--it's hard to look away, and hard not to feel that something has shifted in you for having read her."--Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams
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**From columnist and critic Alana Massey, a collection of essays examining the intersection of the personal with pop culture through the lives of pivotal female figures --from Sylvia Plath to Britney Spears--in the spirit of Chuck Klosterman, with the heart of a true fan. **
Mixing Didion's affected cool with moments of giddy celebrity worship, Massey examines the lives of the women who reflect our greatest aspirations and darkest fears back onto us. These essays are personal without being confessional and clever in a way that invites readers into the...