Opinions by Roxane Gay
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger comes a stunning retrospective of essays and writings from the last decade covering politics, race and identity, feminism, popular culture, and more.
This is a must-read for not only fans of Gay's work, but for everyone interested in reading intellectual, accessible, and important takes on timely topics * Booklist (Starred Review) *
Essays, op-eds, and pop-culture pieces from the acclaimed novelist and memoirist. . [Gay] has a gift for clean, well-ordered prose, and strong feelings on matters of race, gender, and sexuality. Most important, she possesses a fearlessness essential to doing the job right; though she can observe an issue from various angles, she never wrings her hands or delivers milquetoast commentaries . . . she comes to her opinions more out of empathy than ideology . . . Fierce and informed riffs on current events and enduring challenges * Kirkus Reviews *
Opinions is a phenomenal collection of [Gay's] writing over the last decade, and she covers it all, from politics, the cult of celebrity, to civil rights and feminism, and her incisive analysis shines in every piece * Glamour UK *
Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's eyes and, by the end, you see the world differently -- Arwa Mahdawi * Guardian *
Essays, op-eds, and pop-culture pieces from the acclaimed novelist and memoirist. . [Gay] has a gift for clean, well-ordered prose, and strong feelings on matters of race, gender, and sexuality. Most important, she possesses a fearlessness essential to doing the job right; though she can observe an issue from various angles, she never wrings her hands or delivers milquetoast commentaries . . . she comes to her opinions more out of empathy than ideology . . . Fierce and informed riffs on current events and enduring challenges * Kirkus Reviews *
Opinions is a phenomenal collection of [Gay's] writing over the last decade, and she covers it all, from politics, the cult of celebrity, to civil rights and feminism, and her incisive analysis shines in every piece * Glamour UK *
Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's eyes and, by the end, you see the world differently -- Arwa Mahdawi * Guardian *
Roxane Gay is the author of the essay collection Bad Feminist, which was a New York Times bestseller; the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; the memoir Hunger, which was a New York Times bestseller and received a National Book Critics Circle citation; and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times, she has also written for Time, McSweeney's, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Bookforum, and Salon. Her fiction has also been selected for The Best American Short Stories 2012, The Best American Mystery Stories 2014, and other anthologies. She is the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She lives in Lafayette, Indiana, and sometimes Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781472158642 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472158644 |
| Title | Opinions |
| Author | Roxane Gay |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2023-10-10 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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