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Cooles for You : a Novel by Eileen Myles; [with an introduction by Chris Kraus.] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Grainy and stripped down, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a tough, queer girl growing up in working-class Boston by "a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant-garde” ( The New York Times ). Why can’t I live right now. Because I am not rich, I am not a saint. But I do know this: not all of us were sent here to work. The first published novel of legendary poet and performer Eileen Myles follows a queer female growing up in working-class Boston, straining against the institutions that hold her: family, Catholic school, jobs at a camp, at a nursing home, at a school for developmentally disabled adult males. She wants to be an astronaut. Instead, she becomes a poet and journeys through a series of low-end schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade beds. Schooled by mean and memorable Catholic nuns, this tomboy heroine stumbles and dreams her way through the painful corridors of family, early sexual encounters, and an eye-opening series of jobs caring for the sick and insane—the abandoned wards of the state. This is a book hell-bent on telling the truth about poor women, and how they do (and do not) get out of the hands of their familie

Who reads Cooles for You : a Novel?

Author

Eileen Myles; [with an introduction by Chris Kraus.]

Publisher

Catapult

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781593766870

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry