Caca dolce : essays from a lowbrow life / Chelsea Martin.
| Author/creator | Martin, Chelsea, 1986- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First Soft Skull edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2017. |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | 210 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A very special introduction that knows it's not actually special -- Child's play -- The meaning of life -- Vandal -- Punks not dead -- A year without spoons -- Voluntary responses to involuntary sensations -- Goth Ryan -- Ceramic busts -- A scrap of Hello Kitty notepaper -- Secrets of professional tournament poker -- How to bullshit -- Man-hater -- Trashy coming-of-age story -- Romantic comedy -- Zeitgeist -- Evolution and maybe death -- I lost a tooth at work -- The man who famously inspired this essay. |
| Abstract | Funny, candid, and searchingly self-aware, this essay collection tells the story of Chelsea Martin's coming of age as an artist. We are with Chelsea as an eleven-year-old atheist, trying to will an alien visitation to her neighborhood; fighting with her stepfather and grappling with a Tourette's diagnosis as she becomes a teenager; falling under the sway of frenemies and crushes in high school; going into debt to afford what might be a meaningless education at an expensive art college; navigating the messy process of falling in love with a close friend; and struggling for independence from her emotionally manipulative father and from the family and friends in the dead-end California town that has defined her upbringing. This is a book about relationships, class, art, sex, money, and family--and about growing up weird, and poor, in the late 1990s and early 2000s. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| LCCN | 2017009907 |
| ISBN | 9781593766771 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1593766777 (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | TRC Biographies | B M3634M | ✔ Available | Place Hold |