Legs Get Led Astray
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1892061422 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 166 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Chloe Caldwell's essays will dare you to dissect your own life. --Lidia Yuknavitch . Tender and sharp, wide-eyed and searching, these essays have a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic. --Poe BallantinePrepare to shed skin. --Cheryl StrayedThese true stories are raw and heartfelt gems galore. Shot-through with sexuality and sass, her language will get up in you and turn you inside out in the best possible way. Chloe Caldwell's Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box of youthful despair and dark delight
bold, energetic, and enthralling I picked this book up after hearing the author read and it was one of the smartest impulse buys I've made this year. I don't usually go for essays very much, but I just ate these up. I'm not sure what I liked best; these essays have a great deal of impressive aspects. The author manages to simultaneously convey both an intense hunger for life and the marvels it contains as well as a later introspection of those experiences that is as tender for the darker things as the shining lights. The writing is bold, energetic, and enthralling. It hits hard, but has a tenderness to it as well. In short, I really got into these . needed more Gabriella i fell in love with the book in the beginning.i connected with pieces and experiences. but towards the end of the book i felt like the author was justifying, whether to us or herself, that people found her important. that she was something special and loved by all. i finally disconnected around her trip to europe. i wanted more. a revelation, an epiphany, a lesson learned or values learned. if she had, i didn't see it.. Distinctive, Raw, and Honest Caldwell certainly has a distinct writing style. These are more prose poems than true prose, and she heavily favors writing these to a person (using a lot of "yous" in her writing).I discovered Caldwell when Powell's sent me a piece of her writing as part of an Indiespensables package (if you're reading this, chances are you like to read, and I would highly encourage you to look into Indiespensables). I'm glad I bought her book--the style is right up my alley. I did find, though, that because she had SUCH a distinct style, it got a little tedious. The good news is that these are short stories/essays, and you can sto
Legs Get Led Astray is a provocative collection of essays that vividly rockets the reader through one young woman's life. Beller's Neighborhood, and is forthcoming in The Nervous Breakdown and Everyday Genius.. Caldwell's writing remarkably explores the genre of personal non-fiction and has been featured in The Rumpus, The Faster Times, and Mr. Chloe Caldwell beautifully and bluntly escorts you through her childhood dreams, her first loves, her most unguarded sexual exploits, bookstore crushes, babysitting jobs, heartbroken wanderlust, and the suicide of a lost lover
Learn more about her at chloecaldwell . Chloe Caldwell lives in New York