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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



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Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions

by Daphne Gottlieb

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ISBN13: 9781580052351
ISBN10: 1580052355
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When Daphne Gottlieb first found herself the character in someone else’s story she was intrigued; over time, as she appeared in more and more stories, she started to wonder about the implications of what was real and what wasn’t. Did it matter that there were published stories of her having sex in bathrooms, vacant parking lots, on the balcony at a party in an old bordello? Did it matter whether or not they were true?

This question sparked the idea for Fucking Daphne, a collection that blurs the lines between reality and fiction and begs the question “who is the real Daphne?” A pill-popping wild child? A soft place to fall with a broken heart? A dreadlocked vixen?

Contributors include Hanne Blank, Stephen Elliot, Sarah Katherine Lewis, and Ariel Gore, who describe, watch, and engage with a character that is not Daphne Gottlieb; Daphne is a projection, a fantasy, a zeitgeist. We are all a multitude of people in bed. We are all Daphne.

Harnessing the playfulness of the hoax, the seductiveness of literature, and the edginess of the avant-garde, Fucking Daphne is unique in a culture hungry for sex, information, and most of all, understanding.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781580052351
Subtitle:
Mostly True Stories and Fictions
Author:
Gottlieb, Daphne
Publisher:
Seal Press (CA)
Subject:
HEA042000
Subject:
American fiction
Subject:
Erotic stories, American
Subject:
Erotica - General
Subject:
Identity (psychology)
Publication Date:
June 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
261
Dimensions:
8.26x5.56x.80 in. .73 lbs.

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