Summer of Hate
$39.12
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2012
Summary
Baudrillard meets Breaking Bad in this stark and bleakly hilarious novel about a descent into an underclass world of born-again Christianity, self-help, and crack.“In his journal, Paul liked to make lists- What he ordered from Commissary (shaving cream, toothpaste, deodorant, the transistor radio he had for a week before the guards took it away). The books he picked off the cart (The Bible, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Codependent No More.) What phone calls he made and received; also, Bible Stu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584351139 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584351136 |
| Author: | Chris Kraus |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Critics Review
For readers tired of political art’s worn-out strategies, Summer of Hate joins the rest of Kraus’ bibliography in offering an engaging and razor-sharp alternative.
—Meagan Day, Full-stop.netSummer of Hate is original, intelligent, darkly humorous, emotionally honest, and it grips the reader with a relentless thriller-like force.
—Victoria Patterson, Los Angeles Review of BooksWhen writers like Kraus commit to a subjective stance—biographical or not—they become easy targets for critics quick to dismiss the work as indulgent, aggressive, or victimizing. Summer of Hate is commendable for not only taking up the mantle of sexualized female subjectivity, but for its narrative of exploration the real psychic underbelly of the elite art world: the experience of the disenfranchised and the incarcerated, and the limits of a social system that imposes ever greater disparities between classes.
—Brooklyn RailAbout The Author
Chris Kraus
Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick and Summer of Hate; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, After Kathy Acker- A Literary Biography. She received the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.
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