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Tacky : love letters to the worst culture we have to offer / Rax King.
Van Pelt Library PS3611.I58425 Z46 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Rax, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- King, Rax.
- Popular culture--United States--21st century.
- Popular culture.
- Young women--Anecdotes.
- Young women.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Essays.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 193 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
- Summary:
- "TACKY is about the power of pop culture -- like any art, low or high -- to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" taste. These fifteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we've learned to hate to love -- frosted tips and glosses, Sex and the City, The Cheesecake Factory -- into kinder and sharper perspective. Each essay revolves around a different maligned (and yet, Rax would argue, vital) cultural artifact and its entwinement with Rax's millennial coming-of-age: an essay about the gym-tan-laundry exuberance of Jersey Shore morphs into an excavation of grief over the death of her father, who loved the show; in another, Guy Fieri helps her heal from an abusive relationship. The result is a collection that captures a personal and generational experience with clarity, humor, and heartfelt honesty"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Six Feet from the Edge
- Ode to Warm Vanilla Sugar
- Vignettes from Hot Topic
- Never Fall in Love at the Jersey Shore
- You Wanna Be on Top?
- Loss of the American Shopping Mall
- Three Small Words
- The Burial of Samantha Jones
- Exactly as Much Spinach-and-Cheese Dip
- On Sexting
- Whatever It Takes, I Know I Can Make It Through
- The Sims and the Heart-Shaped Bed
- Love, Peace, and Taco Grease
- It's Time to Let Meat Loaf into Your Embarrassing Little Heart.
- Notes:
- "A Vintage Books original"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780593312728
- 0593312724
- OCLC:
- 1226075961
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