- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Plume Books; Reprint edition (Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0452283515
- ISBN-13: 978-0452283510
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.2 x 1.7 cm
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- #29 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Literature > Short Stories > Lesbian
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This collection contains 15 stories about tough women weathered by hard times and the business of survival. Sex, food, health, love and loyalty are all explored. The stories are accompanied by angry and pssionate poems. By the author of "Bastard out of Carolina".
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“I’ve these pictures my mama gave me – stained sepia prints of bare dirt yards, plank porches, and step after step of children – cousins, uncles, aunts; mysteries. I come of an enormous family and I cannot tell half their stories.”
From the tale of Shannon Pearl, the crazy, brooding albino child who, ‘had she been stronger or smarter would have been dangerous’ to the tragedy of Aunt Cora, who ‘packed up biscuits, cold chicken and Coca-Cola’ and left home with her four girls, Dorothy Allison casts an unblinking eye over the poor ‘white trash’ people of the American South. Drawing on her own background, the stories and poems in 'Trash' also form a remarkable confessional portrait of Allison herself, a lesbian, whose flight from her own violent, abusive family upbringing brought a hard won but exhilarating emotional and sexual freedom. Raw, chillingly honest and inspiring, she writes with unforgettable force and vision.
“Allison illuminates aspects of a class that has been neglected and misunderstood. Haunting work … a raw power”
NEW STATESMAN
“Allison’s work has all the hard won honesty of Carver’s best writing”
INDEPENDENT
“The literary territory that Allison has set out to explore is dangerous turf. It is a great pleasure to see her succeed, blithe and graceful as Baryshnikov in performance. A major talent … please reserve a seat of honour at the high table of the art of fiction for Dorothy Allison.”
NEW YORK TIMES
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Not just lesbian fiction
9 Jan 2001
Format:Paperback
Trash is a great book of short stories written by Dorothy Allison. Although she the winner of book awards for lesbian fiction, her stories also tell of a tragic childhood, growing up as white trash, and of a family life involving alcholism, abuse and tragedy. The stories are difficult to read at times, due to the agonizing adversity the she has faced, but it is peppered with comic relief, sarcasm and wit.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A series of insightful autobiographical sketches
9 Mar 1999
Format:Paperback
Trash, billed as a book of short stories, was more like a book of essays - anticdotal, reflective, sometimes funny, often tragic - which give the reader a sense of sitting around the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and an old friend named Dorothy Allison. I loved Trash because I felt closer to Allison after reading it - she is one of my favorite authors, and this book brought me to a better understanding of her both as a person and as a writer.
17 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Harrowing and emotionally exhausting to read
24 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
Dorothy Allision's "Trash' is a collection of essays and loosely connected anecdotes about being born into, growing up in, and surviving a horrific childhood in a white trash community in America. The stories recall nightmares you wouldn't wish on your enemies. Allison writes with such bitterness, anger and ferocity it's frightening. I found it a tough read and had to tackle it a bit at a time. The essays/stories are not all compelling. Some I found esoteric and skipped. The earlier ones like "River of Names" were mostly excellent. The later ones which tell of Allison's voyage of sexual self discovery were harder to get through. It's not the graphic sex that's hard to handle but the emotional landscape that's alien to those outside the community she writes of. Personally, I found "Trash" an unpleasant read and while I respect Allsion's integrity, she's obviously not going to be everybody's cup of tea.
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