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    Reading Brooke Shields: the garden of failure (Native Agents)

    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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    Seller: indoobestsellers
    Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 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
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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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.


    Customer Reviews:
    4 out of 5 stars 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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