Valencia
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 158005238X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend; Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from the South in a dust cloud of drama; and Iris's ex, Magdalena Squalor, to whom Michelle turns when Iris breaks her heart.
All week she was free, writing angsty brilliant poems, drawing comic books, painting gigantic painful pictures, you know, living. The occasional flash of clarity doesn't alter the basically anarchic nature of Tea's meandering narrative, so much like the tales of an incidental figure from Valencia, a loud redhead named Iggy who told stories "so incredible you wondered if they were true but ultimately didn't care because you were so enraptured by her grand gestures and re-enactments." --Regina Marler. Sh
Marilyn M Mendoza said Not an easy read but a good voice from a good person. I couldn't read it in one session. The stream of consciousness style is not easy on the reader nor is the life of Michelle Tea in that time of her life. I became interested in Tea's work after reading an interview by Ariel Gore in her book. She talked about her then new book Valencia. I ended up reading her newer book- How to grow up. It was great. So, I bought Valencia. The book is revealing about Tea's life in San Francisco. She drinks, and is obsessed about h. not just a [lesbian] book Kyle Cassidy The tragedy of Valencia is that it's going to be pidgen-holed as "lesbian fiction" and it's audience will be limited because of that. this is indeed a book whose characters are lesbians, but to limit it like that a shame; no one files hemingway under "straight fiction". this is a brilliant book of raging life, confused emotions; a whirlwind of activity. the narrator finds herself at the epicenter of friends, relationships, cops, drugs, and emotions that are neve. Mrs D. AwesomePants said Beautifully written, completely entertaining.. This book transports the reader into the San Francisco lesbian scene. Having lived on the east coast my whole life and being rather shy, i found myself living through her on her adventures with woman after woman.It's a quick read, a no-brainer, but highly entertaining.I'd recommend this book as a weekend fling!=)