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- Publisher: Fazi (Aug 2008)
- Language Italian
- ISBN-10: 8881129574
- ISBN-13: 978-8881129577
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 70,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'An honest and brutal look into the minds of men. Whether they are rich or poor, white or black, powerful or powerless, and whether they admit it or not, men all want the same thing. This is a beautiful, beautiful book' James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces; 'Nic Kelman spares no one in his starting debut novel, girls. Not western culture. Not eastern culture. Not men. Not women. Not you, brave reader, not you.' Victoria Redel, author of Loverboy"
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girls is a journey into the most forbidden corners of male desire and a brilliantly provocative novel about lust, obsession and power. A wealthy father of two deserts his family in order to spend the night in a college girl's dorm room. A CEO visiting his friends' villa feigns a sprained ankle in order to have sex with their teenage daughter. A businessman in Korea has the best sexual experience of his life with a young woman whose true age he never learns. These are the men who have left their safe lives, who have replaced their old dreams with dreams of the girls they yearn for. In an age when everything is for sale, girls? subject matter is the power and fascination young girls have over rich men and vice versa. Juxtaposing philosophical asides and travelling deep inside the most forbidden corners of male desire, Nic Kelman?s insights are both revealing and shocking.
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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In Nic Kelman's world men have power, money, all the boys toys you could ever want, but they are still ruled by girls. Not business women, real girls, young beautiful things they lust after, that they will gamble everything they've built up for.
This book isn't empowering for women or men, but everyone should read it, or it will come true. It's like American Psycho for the noughties (only without the killing) a book that changes how you look at businessmen, even if you are one.
The examination of why men are so consumed by materialism and supremacy runs through the Odyssey and the Ilyad to remind us that they always were, but seems to conclude that ultimately all such quests are futile.
Too beautifully written and too literary to be pornography, but stuffed cover to cover with sex. One of the best books written this year.
I hadn't even heard of Serpents Tale before I read Jonathan Trigell's awesome Boy A, now I reckon they have got to be the edgiest publisher out there.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Extraordinary that something so intrinsic in the potential of man and girl has taken so long to be articulated in an honest, apolitical and non-judgmental way. If LOLITA was about dysfunctional love, GIRLS is pure lust. Kelman is looking at men who trangress and girls who willingly succumb. His focus is not simply a present-day crisis of the corporate alpha-male: as his parallel narrative reminds us, the Greeks had their Gods and their Furies and yet they were fighting for 14 year old girls with their lives. No, this is about how and why intelligent men lose the battle with their instincts, about the fragility of status and about the searing, frightening truth that moments are what men live for. Whatever it takes. If it's laughs you're after, look elsewhere. This is dark and hard to shake off.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
'girls' is the sort of book that makes you give up whatever else it is you're valiantly persevering with at the time in order to read. Or at least it should be. Seriously. Put down that Penguin Classic and get stuck into this...
From the first paragraph of the first page, it's addictive and compelling, but be warned: this is no cheap thriller. You will come back to 'girls' - and it will come back to you - time and time again. A starkly beautiful, well-written collection of scenes, snapshots and stories, this is a brutally honest, often disturbing and occasionally hilarious account of the desires, weaknesses, and failings, of both men and women in the 21st Century. This ultra-modern fable - written in the second person for that perfect, a-little-too-close-to-home, 'accusatory' feel - is counterbalanced with passages lifted from Homer's 'Iliad'. Admittedly, it is tempting to skip these parts in order to get back to the 'juicy bits' (juice that is invariably tainted...) but this parallel narrative serves as an important reminder that men have always been this way, and probably always will be.
If you're into Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Ellis, Hubert Selby Jr. or Charles Bukowski - and let's face it, you really should be - I strongly recommend 'girls'.
Matt Pucci
From the first paragraph of the first page, it's addictive and compelling, but be warned: this is no cheap thriller. You will come back to 'girls' - and it will come back to you - time and time again. A starkly beautiful, well-written collection of scenes, snapshots and stories, this is a brutally honest, often disturbing and occasionally hilarious account of the desires, weaknesses, and failings, of both men and women in the 21st Century. This ultra-modern fable - written in the second person for that perfect, a-little-too-close-to-home, 'accusatory' feel - is counterbalanced with passages lifted from Homer's 'Iliad'. Admittedly, it is tempting to skip these parts in order to get back to the 'juicy bits' (juice that is invariably tainted...) but this parallel narrative serves as an important reminder that men have always been this way, and probably always will be.
If you're into Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Ellis, Hubert Selby Jr. or Charles Bukowski - and let's face it, you really should be - I strongly recommend 'girls'.
Matt Pucci
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What makes middle aged men crave young girls?
This book is genius. It handles the whole "Lolita" phenomenon head on. Through the eyes of a rich, middle aged man. He has no remorse. To him, it is all matter of fact. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2009 by Victoria
Boys behaving badly...A book for women.
Nick Kelman's book is about rich boys behaving badly in any sort of way with reagrds to women of all ages. Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2006 by Ms. A. Voulgari
Right on it
Kelman knows what he's talking about here and gets it. he's right on it and exposes the fragility of how both sexes operate. All women should read this and start worrying. Read more
Published on 22 July 2004
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