Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler

by Holly Hughes

Book Overview

Holly Hughes is one of the most popular and controversial out-there-and-in-your-face writer-performers around, and in this collection of some of her greatest hits she describes her career as an "escape" artist: how she escaped her conservative upbringing in a part of the country "where silence was the first language" to become an award-winning performance artist and playwright as well as a central figure in America's culture wars. As the Los Angeles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802133339
• ISBN13: 9780802133335
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Uneven but Good

The first play "The Well of Horniness", is an absolute scream. I mean serious, gut-busting, knee-slapping funny. The remaining plays are just okay. "The Well" is so good though, I still recommend the book.

A Sapphic Serenade

Holly Hughes injects liberal amounts of humour in this marvellous collection of anecdotes, monologues and short plays. Sexy, sassy, sometimes silly - but never boring - the reader is treated to tongue-in-cheek stabs at society's indiosyncracies. Delightful!

Had me laughing out loud and made me wish I was a lesbian!

Holly Hughes' Clit Notes is an intelligent, moving, and sharply funny collection of monolouges and personal stories. Cutting and in the same turn of phrase totally vulnerable, her work creates the portrait of a new woman of the '90's, an in your face, smart, funny, sensitive, lesbian. Anybody, male or female, gay or not should pick up this book! Highly recommended!!!