I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather, we're a series of mouths, and that every mouth needs filling: with something wet or dry, like love, or unfamiliar and savory, like love.
White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Louise Brooks and Michael Jackson.
Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most highly acclaimed essay collections in years.
'The first time you read Hilton Als, it's a revelation ... you wonder where this guy has been all your life ... He is both a startlingly insightful intellectual and a friendly, open and generous-spirited companion...' - Big Issue
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141987293
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 258 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
A rhapsodic and provocative collection of essays on race, class, sexuality and identity in America - Financial Times
Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin - Observer
Effortless, fearless and honest - New York Times
The first time you read Hilton Als, it's a revelation ... you wonder where this guy has been all your life ... He is both a startlingly insightful intellectual and a friendly, open and generous-spirited companion. It is the authenticity of his voice which makes him so compelling. That and the sheer dazzling brilliance of his writing, visceral and poetic, big-hearted, hot-headed and fierce' - Big Issue
Enlightening... a book you should read now - VICE
The variations he plays on the themes of identity, intimacy and race achieve a fugue-like complexity and power - Washington Post
Beautiful and deeply intelligent - New Statesman
A stunning analysis of contemporary culture ... undoubtedly one of the most important books of our times - DAZED
Pioneering ... a mosaic of thoughts and observations, taking in the landscape of a New York ravaged by AIDS and his private grief for his lost lover, imagining silent film star Louise Brookes' drawling inner life, and examining his own complicated relationship with his sexuality and blackness - AnOther Magazine
Magnificent - Los Angeles Times
Stunning - Kirkus Reviews
Exhilarating ... Audacious - San Francisco Chronicle
Brilliant - Boston Globe
Mesmerising - Los Angeles Review of Books
This will be debated for years - Entertainment Weekly
This book will change you - Chicago Tribune
I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged - John Jeremiah Sullivan
An intersectional masterpiece of race and sexuality, fact and fiction, memoir and polemic. The book that allowed a generation to make radicalism full of beauty and emotion - I-D Magazine
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