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I Love Dick

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I Love Dick by Chris Kraus is a genre-blending work of fiction that merges autobiography, cultural criticism, and epistolary narrative. The story revolves around an artist named Chris who develops an obsession with a man named Dick. Through letters addressed to him, she explores themes of love, female subjectivity, and the intersection of personal and artistic life. It's a provocative and intellectually stimulating novel that challenges conventional norms.
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This book may appeal to you if you're drawn to works that cleverly blend personal memoir with cultural critique and explore themes of love, obsession, and the intersections of gender and power. It's an engaging read for those intrigued by introspective narratives that challenge conventional storytelling through a provocative and candid lens.

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I Love Dick

The cult novel adored by feminists and fashionistas alike, now in paperback.

The cult novel - now a major TV series by Jill Soloway, the creator of TRANSPARENT, starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn

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When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters, Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy.

Blurring the lines of fiction, essay, and memoir, Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant, fierce, and funny as ever.

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Sheila Heti describes I Love Dick as a transformative work that challenges the novel form, while Rachel Kushner highlights the book's indispensable intelligence and originality. Zoe Pilger praises it as a classic, exploring themes of unrequited love through a unique lens. Rick Moody finds it a revealing and illuminating read. White Review and Nation both commend the book for its clear prose and provocative nature, and Leslie Jamison likens it to a secret, inviting club. Dawn Foster and others in Independent appreciate its exploration of deeper truths about female desire, while Emily Gould in the Guardian considers its feminist relevance enduring. Jonathan Gibbs in Independent sees it as a key text bridging life-writing and fiction. Eva Wiseman and others often refer to it as a crucial feminist novel, with its influence felt across writers like Sheila Heti and Ben Lerner. Critics recognise it as a formidable and genre-defying work, with varied insights into female experience and desire.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781781256480

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 May 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Serpent's Tail

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 220g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including Aliens & Anorexia, I Love Dick, and Torpor, and two books of art and cultural criticism, all published by Semiotext(e). She was a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and teaches writing at European Graduate School.

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