Valencia
£10.99
‘Valencia’ is the fast-paced account of one girl’s search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco’s Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there’s knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; Willa, Michelle’s tormented poet-girlfriend; Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from the South in a dust cloud of drama; and Iris’s ex, Magdalena Squalor, to whom Michelle turns when Iris breaks her heart.
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The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea’s classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts’One of the few truly life changing books I’ve encountered’ Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, BabyFleeing Tucson and her troublesome on-and-off ex-girlfriend, Michelle lands in queer San Francisco’s riotous underbelly, stumbling through her early twenties in a haze of nightlife, drug adventures, scams and a string of hookups, break-ups and make-ups. As butches and dykes spin in and out of her orbit, she considers the force and casual cruelty of their desires and her own. Heady, beer-sticky and brimming with life, Valencia is a sharply observed and piercingly funny chronicle of a year lived close to the bone. ‘If you want to know how dangerous and great and awful it is to be a girl, you’ll scarf Valencia right up’ Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls’Michelle Tea is an intoxicating writer, delivering sentences that land with the snap and force of a punch’ Guardian
| Weight | 0.24 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.8 × 2.2 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 288 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Dewey | 813.6 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
