Bitches Ride Alone

by Laura Chester

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876858485
• ISBN13: 9780876858486
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.9" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Spurs on high-heeled sneakers -- gotta love it!

Flawed, uneven, idiosyncratic -- and damn brilliant! Buy it and jump on for a ride full of surprises. Even the most butt-chapped cynic will find they've tender spots unguessed at under Chester's whip-hand wielding words like snapping leather. But for all the astringent clarity and cantering alacrity of her writing, Laura C's work is a celebration of romance, albeit romance with eyes open, lights on, and post-childhood: a wry mix of love-shy-but-lusting, wary-but-hopeful, soignee-but-spastic marriage of desire and experience. Bitches Ride Alone not only captures what it is to be adult and taking a chance on love in this new present era but brings it back alive from the jungle of id and ego. If you're a woman, I imagine you'll envy the spunk and brio of Chester's writing; as a man, I was happily chagrined to learn from it anew what a powerfully wonderful mystery it is that women don't rule the world while keep men as semi-tamed pets...