As Seen on TV Provocations

by Grealy, Lucy

• ISBN13: 9781582341538
• ISBN10: 1582341532
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

From the author of the unforgettableAutobiography of A Facecomes a collection of wonderfully unexpected essays on life, love, sex, God and politics. Whether she is contemplating promiscuity orThe New Testament, lamenting about what she should have said to Oprah, or learning to tango, Grealy seduces and surprises the reader at every turn. With the sheer brilliance of her imagination, Grealy leads us on delightful journeys with her wit, unflinching honesty and peerless intelligence.As Seen On TVbreaks the mould of the essay, and is destined, like the memoir that preceded it, to become a modern classic.

Author Biography

Lucy Grealy is an award-winning poet and author of the highly acclaimed memoir, Autobiography of a Face (New York Times Notable Book of the Year). She lives in New York City and is currently working on a novel.

Table of Contents

You are Here; A Map to this Book	1	(4)
As Seen on TV	5	(16)
Nerve	21	(8)
Mirrorings	29	(18)
What it Takes	47	(14)
Fool in Boots	61	(8)
The Country of Childhood	69	(12)
My God	81	(18)
A Brief Sketch of Myself at Fourteen	99	(10)
Written in Four Voices for the Hungry Mind Review Issue on Regional Writing	109	(6)
The Story so Far	115	(18)
The Right Language	133	(8)
The Present Tense	141	(8)
Twin World	149	(10)
The Girls	159	(8)
The Yellow House	167