Book by Tea Michelle
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The rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco's radical lesbian underground is laid bare in this action-packed novel, which follows a young gay woman down into the often dangerous world inhabited by the city's "dyke" community.
In this gritty, confessional memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachusetts -- a place where time and hope are spent on things not getting any worse.
Tea's girlhood is shaped by the rough fabric of the neighborhood and by its characters -- the soft vulnerability of her sister Madeline and her quietly brutal Polish father; the doddering, sometimes violent nuns of Our Lady of Assumption; Marisol Lewis from the projects by the creek; and Johnna Latrotta, the tough-as-nails Italian dance-school teacher who offered a slim chance for escape to every young Chelsea girl in tulle and tap shoes.
Told in Tea's trademark loose-tongued, lyrical style, this memoir both celebrates and annihilates one girl's tightrope walk out of a working-class slum and the lessons she carries with her. With wry humor and a hard-fought wisdom, Tea limns the extravagant peril of a dramatic adolescence with the private, catastrophic secret harbored within the walls of her family's home -- a secret that threatens to destroy her family forever.
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Librería: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, Canada
Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. A 202 page memoir of the author's life in San Francisco's gay/queer community. She worked as a bike courier. UNillustrated. Read more about : Dykes on Bikes, Market Street, Suzanne, and pearl-drop earrings. Cond ; paper wrapper is red with white and black lettering. Front cover graphic is of a sex trade worker having lunch while sitting on a curb. Volume is tight, bright and clean in ALL aspects. Excellent reading copy ! Quote (p. 124) : " We entered the cool cave of the practice space with all the long-haired, goateed boys stoned on clouds of pot and playing with power tools. I tossed my fluffy coat into the hollow of my bass drum and lay on the carpet with my worn newspaper. A shirtless boy came in and told ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Nº de ref. del artículo: 008580
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