Humiliation

Name: Humiliation
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
ISBN: 9781907903465

Wayne Koestenbaum

06/06/2011
Notting Hill Editions

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Humiliation par Wayne Koestenbaum

Résumé

The lives of people both famous and obscure are filled with moments when their dirty laundry sees daylight. At such times we witness the reversibility of success, of prominence, but also come to terms viscerally with our own most vulnerable selves. We cannot stop watching the scene of shame, identifying with it, absorbing its nearness, relishing our immunity, even as we acknowledge the universality of the human stain, the uneasy predicament of living in our own bodies -