Robert's review
Suicide Blonde
by Darcey Steinke
Robert's review
Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke
Robert's review
rating:
bookshelves:
defenestrated,
owned-and-gave-away
Darcy Steinke, Suicide Blonde (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992)
`ware the media event-book, film, whatever it may be-that is presented as something "in the tradition of." Robert Olmstead says on the back cover of Steinke's second novel that it is in the tradition of Djuna Barnes, Georges Bataille, and Marguerite Duras; certainly the kind of recommendationt hat is going to get under the skin of any connoisseur of enlightened pornography. Unfortunately, "in the tradition of" does not mean "comparable to."
Steinke gives us the life of Jesse, a woman who is, as she says, "attracted to people who make me feel inadequate." Her lover, Bell, is obsessed with a former schoolmate he hasn't seen in ten years. She realizes she's falling into the same routine to try and keep him interested that her mother used to do the same with her father, but is unable to break the cycle, just sit and watch it in a kind of disinterested existential horror. Such might be ref...more
`ware the media event-book, film, whatever it may be-that is presented as something "in the tradition of." Robert Olmstead says on the back cover of Steinke's second novel that it is in the tradition of Djuna Barnes, Georges Bataille, and Marguerite Duras; certainly the kind of recommendationt hat is going to get under the skin of any connoisseur of enlightened pornography. Unfortunately, "in the tradition of" does not mean "comparable to."
Steinke gives us the life of Jesse, a woman who is, as she says, "attracted to people who make me feel inadequate." Her lover, Bell, is obsessed with a former schoolmate he hasn't seen in ten years. She realizes she's falling into the same routine to try and keep him interested that her mother used to do the same with her father, but is unable to break the cycle, just sit and watch it in a kind of disinterested existential horror. Such might be ref...more
