Description
by Als, Hilton | USA
Published 01/02/2018 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 352 pages
STAFF PICK: Reuben
A collection of essays/diary entries written in Als’ magnificent prose, he shares his love of art and people through several essays framed loosely around the feminine icons (the “white girls”) that shaped him. Sensitive, tender and terrifically intelligent.
‘I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged’ John Jeremiah Sullivan
‘Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin’ Observer’
I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather, we’re a series of mouths, and that every mouth needs filling: with something wet or dry, like love, or unfamiliar and savory, like love. White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Louise Brooks and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most highly acclaimed essay collections in years.
