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Reading Brooke Shields: the garden of failure (Native Agents) |  | Author: Eldon Garnet
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2784531
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 248
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 157027052X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781570270529
ASIN: 157027052X
Publication Date: January 1, 1995
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Product Description
This dialogue about depression and culture constitutes Canadian author Eldon Garnet's "confessions" as a failed cultural critic who, after writing all his life, is faced once again with the desire. Awakened from semiretirement by a magazine commission on Brooke Shields, an icon of virginal perfection, Garnet has his narrator weave a dark tale of professionalism, the abyss of failure that remains when the fifteen minutes of fame have long since dried up. The "subject" of the narrative, Brooke Shields, becomes an untouchable, idealized figure in a world of personalities and faces. It is through the very absence and untouchability of this fetishized celebrity icon that Garnet describes the vicissitudes of his narrator's decline. Sinister, comical, and profound, Garnet's novel is a work of cultural politics and radical honesty.
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cool writing style- February 4, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Reading the back of this book alone, I would have never purchased it- But in the bookstore I read the first page and the writing style was the thing that sucked me in- A self depricating first person narrative of a very neurotic man-- very intriguing- almost page turning-- ending a bit disappointing but besides that, i recommend it wholeheartedly-- Its an honest narrative with a narrator who makes no apologies for his many shortcomings...
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