Cool for you / Eileen Myles.

New York (100 Suffolk St., New York 10002) : Soft Skull Press, 2000.

196 pages ; 23 cm

BEIN 2018 6702: Paperbound. Autograph: Samuel R. Delany June 25, Noropa, Boulder, Colorado 2001. Manuscript notes of Samuel R. Delany. Presentation inscription from Eileen Myles to Chip [Samuel R. Delany]. Sticker on back cover contains 10 and 13 digit ISBNs. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.

Why can't I live right now. Because I am not rich, I am not a saint. But I do know this: not all of us were sent here to work. The first published novel of legendary poet and performer Eileen Myles follows a queer female growing up in working-class Boston, straining against the institutions that hold her: family, Catholic school, jobs at a camp, at a nursing home, at a school for developmentally disabled adult males. Free-ranging and deadpan, tragic and joyful, this is a book about women, gender, class, bodies, escape, and what it means to be "inside."

English

June 01, 2002