Absence Makes the Heart (90s)
by Lynne Tillman
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Absence Makes the Heart is a selection of Lynne Tillman's short fiction, written over a ten-year period. Understated and ironic, her work is as funny as it is disturbing as she coolly takes aim at art, sex, memory and death. In 'Other Movies' an East Village street becomes a film set, where everyday life appropriates popular culture, while the underground classic 'Weird Fucks' comically and poignantly chronicles the female 'I' on the road for love and sex. Tillman?s script for the feature show more film Committed (which she co-directed) digs into America?s uneven past through the imagined life of the movie star Frances Farmer. show lessTags
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This book is very much about relationships, particularly about a woman lurching from one dreadful realtionship to another. I don't have much patience for that subject matter, so I didn't get a lot of enjoyment out of this book. The author has a strong style and is in control of her prose, so someone who has been in that situation, or who cares a lot about feminism in the context of modern heterosexual relationships may enjoy reading it.
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Lynne Tillman should be awarded a special Pulitzer for the most perfect use of the word moron in the history of the American novel-Fran Lebowitz
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