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| In The Box Called Pleasure | 
 enlarge | Author: Kim Addonizo
Publisher: Fiction Collective 2
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 365257
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 150
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1573660817
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781573660815
ASIN: 1573660817
Publication Date: October 25, 1999
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Product Description
In the Box Called Pleasure is the first collection of short-fiction by prize-winning poet, Kim Addonizio. These gutsy and post-feminist stories will elicit the shock of recognition from readers, especially women, and may reveal to men something about the dark edges of a woman's psyche. By turns graphic and funny, these urban tales present characters who are teetering on the edge. Indifferent or absent lovers, too much alcohol, too many cigarettes, obsession, paranoia, a desire that is always fresh in spite of the facts-this is the macabre landscape of these very unusual and unrestrained works. In "Reading Sontag," Addonizio invades and recasts Susan Sontag's essay "The Pornographic Imagination" while describing a monumentally failed relationship. In "The Gift," a woman finds a dildo on the street and is magically transformed into a man. From the looming darkness of "The Fall of Saigon" to the meticulously realized phantasmagoria of "A Brief History of Condoms," Addonizio's imagination takes us where contemporary American writing rarely ventures. This book is the unique product of a poet with a gift for formal bravado, uncanny incident, and a strange but very human pathos. Her fictions prepare us for the real millennium.
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 A lovely book February 20, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is so powerful -- edgy and sensual simultaneously. She's as much of a stylist in fiction as she is in poetry. I love these stories -- they made me feel; they made me think; they made me laugh. Definitely -- if you love quality fiction -- buy this book.
 Addonizio's fiction collection is good May 18, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Kim Addonizio is known for her poetry, which is raw in emotion, sensual, and sexual. This collection of 22 stories, her first collection, very much fits in her literary world. None of the stories are very long, in fact a few would be termed 'flash-fiction', but all are well-written and deal with sex to some degree or another, though none are graphic enough to call these stories pornographic. The stories that stick out the most are those that deal with troubled women and their self-destructiveness (which I suppose is just about every story). But before you assume that all is grim, there are stories (such as "A Brief History of Condoms") that successfully use humor. Might even make you laugh out loud. I am a huge fan of Addonizio's poetry, so it makes me happy to say that as a fiction writer she is pretty good. I look forward to reading more stories (and novels if she chooses to write them) from her.
K. Addonizio is HOT!! July 1, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Edgy, sexy, imaginative, sometimes fun, her fiction is difficult to put down.
I was familiar with her poetry. Surely I'll be looking for more of her prose also.
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