Ted's Favorite Skirt by Lewis Warsh (English) Paperback Book

Description: Ted's Favorite Skirt by Lewis Warsh Billie is a Senior at East Winston High when she tutors Ted, the star of the basketball team. But Ted has a drinking problem. He also has a minor fetish, a request that leads Billie on a vicarious search for herself through the characters in the books she loves to "plow through." FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Fiction. Billie is a Senior at East Winston High when she tutors Ted, the star of the basketball team. But Ted has a drinking problem. He also has a minor fetish, a request that leads Billie on avicarious search for herself through the characters in the books she loves to "plow through."But Billies new sexual awareness takes her far beyond Ted, into the lives of East Winstonstroubled, suburban angst, where, for one early 1980s school season, she learns the differencebetween a storied life and reality. "The heroine is a hoops-shooting, Madame Bovary-reading American kid trying to figure it all out. As we follow Billie in and out of love, limning with her the edges of despair and hope, Warsh leadsus deep into the hum of human machinery, a territory where all but essentials are weeded out.Part bildungsroman, part commentary on American life in the 80s, TEDS FAVORITE SKIRT is atrenchant, lovely wonder"--Laird Hunt. Other Lewis Warsh titles available from SPD include INSEPARABLE: POEMS 1995-2005, THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, TOUCH OF THE WHIP, and MONEY UNDER THE TABLE. He is at present on the faculty of Long Island University in Brooklyn Author Biography Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including The Origin of the World, Touch of the Whip, A Free Man, Avenue of Escape and Teds Favorite Skirt. He is the coeditor of The Angel Hair Anthology, editor and publisher of United Artists Books, and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn. Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005, was published by Granary Books in 2008. Review The heroine is a hoops-shooting, Madame Bovary-reading American kid trying to figure it all out. As we follow Billie in and out of love, limning with her the edges of despair and hope, Warsh leads us deep into the "hum of human machinery", a territory where all but essentials are weeded out. Part bildungsroman, part commentary on American life in the 80s, Teds Favorite Skirt is a trenchant, lovely wonder. Laird Hunt, author of The Impossibly Lewis Warsh writes from a true and complex idea of experience, and does so in the certainty that we know what life is about. Teds Favorite Skirt, remarkable for its steady luminosity and insight, reveals the mystery--though not its solution--of how someones presence can weave itself into the fabric of our desire and remain there, long after the time shared with that person has passed, and thus become part of our fate. Chuck Wachtel, author of Because We Are Here Details ISBN1881471780 Author Lewis Warsh Publisher Spuyten Duyvil Year 2002 ISBN-10 1881471780 ISBN-13 9781881471783 Format Paperback Language English Media Book DOI 10.1604/9781881471783 UK Release Date 2002-05-01 Imprint Spuyten Duyvil Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2002-05-01 NZ Release Date 2002-05-01 US Release Date 2002-05-01 Pages 216 Publication Date 2002-05-01 DEWEY FIC Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131130541;

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