White Girls

byHilton Als

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'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' - John Jeremiah Sullivan

This is an extraordinary, complex portrait of 'white girls,' an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures more diverse than you might think. With blazing intelligence and insight, Als travels through the last decades of the twentieth century, from Flannery O'Connor's rural South, through Michael Jackson in the Motown years, to Jean Michel Basquiat and the AIDS epidemic in nineties New York, in order to unravel the tangled notions of sexual and racial identity that have led us to where we are today. White Girls is one of the most provocative and original books about the culture of our time.

A rhapsodic and provocative collection of essays on race, class, sexuality and identity in America

Financial Times

About Hilton Als

Hilton Als is a Pulitzer prize-winning writer and staff writer at The New Yorker. He has received a number of awards, including a Guggenheim, a George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the Windham Campbell prize from Yale University. He is the author of three acclaimed books – The Women, White Girls, and My Pinup; White Girls was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won the LAMBDA Literary Award. Als is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780141987293
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 258g
  • Price: £10.99
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