Despentes Virginie - Bye Bye Blondie - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In a wrecked modern version of a romance novel acclaimed French writer Virginie Despentes pokes at the simultaneous ecstasy and banality of love in an age of psychiatry and punk. Gloria lives in seething rage lashing out at everyone particularly a string of bewildered boyfriends at the local bar. But when her latest explosion leaves her out on the street she unexpectedly runs into famed television personality Eric Muir. Incidentally he's also her teenage boyfriend and the one who started it all. Once upon a time Gloria and Eric met while institutionalized and then became a mascot couple for those homeless and high on a noisy mix of drugs music and counterculture. Now twenty years later Gloria is enamored by youthful love resurrected and determined to immortalize their story by writing a screenplay. Whisked away to Paris she's transformed from a provincial loose cannon into an urbane party guest. But navigating life and love isn t any easier for the middle - aged. Cutting deep to unearth the marriage of institutional violence and heterosexual relationships Bye Bye Blondie illustrates how young women are continuously dragged down and neglected and then dangled false offers of fame in lieu of real redemptive recognition.
Title: Bye Bye Blondie
Author(s): Despentes Virginie
Publisher: Feminist Press At The City University Of New York
Barcode: 9781558619272
Pages: 365 Pages
Publication Date: 7/12/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction