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Nicole Flattery

Autor(a) de Show Them a Good Time

2+ Works 162 Membros 2 Críticas

Obras por Nicole Flattery

Show Them a Good Time (2019) 90 exemplares
Nothing Special (2023) 72 exemplares

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The Dublin Review 68: Autumn 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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female
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Ireland

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Stop recording, he said, at first, like it was a joke because everything was a joke. Then, more insistently: stop recording. He asked for that, a great tiredness obviously sweeping over him. I could hear it in his voice: tired of playing himself, moments of paralyzing doubt about the point of any of it. Too many substances. But there was never any response from the man holding the tape recorder, and the red recording light stayed on.

After a falling out with her best friend, Mae leaves high school and takes a job as a typist for Andy Warhol. She is eventually given the job of transcribing a series of tapes, recordings made of conversations among the denizens of Warhol's studio. Mae is always in the background, watching the glamorous people hang out, and she forms a friendship with the other woman also working to transcribe the tapes, a young runaway who is cagey about her past.

This is a coming of age story about a young woman who becomes a peripheral figure in Andy Warhol's milieu. She's also an observer, overlooked by everyone, occasionally going home with men who see her as enough part of that seemingly glamorous world. She's both eager to be part of it all, but too clear-eyed to delude herself or to fall prey to the more risky excesses, but she is, by the end, another teenage runaway in a city that is not known for kindness.
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RidgewayGirl | Sep 7, 2023 |
My first impression was, how could anybody have been looking forward to this. Bleak with lack of agency most of the women in these stories lack that emotional-cultural connection sinew that couples, however painfully or clumsily, our inner life to the society of which we are a part. The language and some grim humor and the truth that the real world is mostly a fiction made by others keeps these readable, but well, this isn't the fun stuff.
 
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quondame | Jan 19, 2023 |

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