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Absence Makes the Heart (90'S Series)

Absence Makes the Heart (90'S Series)

by Lynne Tillman (Author)

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    Paperback 1990

    $22.52
Synopsis

Absence Makes the Heart is a selection of Lynne Tillman's short fiction, written over a ten-year period. Understated and ironic, her work is as funny as it is disturbing as she coolly takes aim at art, sex, memory and death. In 'Other Movies' an East Village street becomes a film set, where everyday life appropriates popular culture, while the underground classic 'Weird Fucks' comically and poignantly chronicles the female 'I' on the road for love and sex. Tillman?s script for the feature film Committed (which she co-directed) digs into America?s uneven past through the imagined life of the movie star Frances Farmer.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 01 Jun 1990
ISBN 10: 1852421762
ISBN 13: 9781852421762

Media Reviews
In her short fictions Lynne Tillman employs satire, sexual comedy and even at times an eerie gothicism to explore themes around the formation of identity and experience in a media?clogged culture. Her work is always intelligent, always subtle, and often very funny, and the scalpel she uses for slicing into the American order of things has a wickedly sharp edge to it * Patrick McGrath *
Lynne Tillman has the stongest, smartest, most subtly distinct writer's voice of my generation. I admire her breadth of observation, her syntax, her wit * Gary Indiana *
Like an acupuncturist, Lynne Tillman knows the precise points in which to sink her delicate probes. One of the biggest problems in composing fiction is understanding what to leave out; no one is more severe, more elegant, more shocking in her reticences than Tillman * Edmund White *
Author Bio
Lynne Tillman was born in New York City where she now lives. She is the author of Absence Makes the Heart, Cast in Doubt, Haunted Houses and Motion Sickness (Serpent's Tail) and The Madame Realism Complex. She is a contributor to many journals and magazines including Bomb, Art in America, The Guardian and Voice Literary Supplement and is co-director and writer of the feature film Committed.