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The Wrestling Party Paperback Bett Williams

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Publication Name
Alyson Publications
ISBN
9781555837853

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Alyson Publications
ISBN-10
1555837859
ISBN-13
9781555837853
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30261941

Product Key Features

Book Title
Wrestling Party
Number of Pages
148 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Lgbt / Gay, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Bett Williams
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight
6.1 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-061714
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Synopsis
"When does desire turn into exploitation?" Bett Williams asks, reflecting on a relationship she had with a seventeen-year-old girl when she was thirty. This is the question that hums beneath The Wrestling Party, whether Bett is exploring the youth-worshiping tendencies of a riot grrrl music -festival or telling the tale of a disabled boy's passion for Tara Lapinsky or giving advice to "stalker chicks." Bett's life becomes unhinged in an attempt to finally get it right when she has a crush on Anikka, a nightclub regular with a Swiss/German accent who is sexually submissive (as in TheVillage Voice personals-submissive). Bett's crush lands her half naked and covered in oil while wrestling a dozen women in her garage. Still unable to win over Anikka, she enlists the help of David, an obnoxious Scottish writer who assists in bringing the relationship with Anikka to its hilarious and startling finale. The Wrestling Party is a raucous mixture of cultural criticism, erotic tell-all, and in-the-field journalism that reads like a novel you can't put down. In an era marked by social isolation and paint-by-numbers politics, Bett's stories offer us a glimpse of who we are beyond the constraints of cool correctness. Like wrestling, conflict in Bett's -nimble hands is transformed into beauty and violence, into something altogether more complicated and tender. Bett Williams is the author of Girl Walking Backwards. Her writing has appeared in Out and extensively on LesbiaNation.com., A raucous mixture of cultural criticism and erotic tell-all, this is in-the-field journalism that reads like a novel you can't put down. In an era marked by social isolation and paint-by-number politics, Bett's stories offer us a glimpse of who we are beyond the constraints of cool correctness. Like wrestling, conflict in Bett's nimble hands is transformed into beauty and violence into something altogether more complicated and tender.
LC Classification Number
PS3573.I44747Z477

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