White Girls

White Girls

2013 • 338 pages

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A collection of analyses on literature, art and music by the award-winning author of The Women shares cultural, meditative insights into race, gender and history that encompass a diverse range of subjects from Truman Capote and Louise Brooks to Malcolm X and Flannery O'Connor.

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This book is completely insane and astonishing. Als is such a brave, unorthodox writer. He does things with syntax I just can't imagine ever doing myself.

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