Mondo Barbie

by Richard Peabody

Book Overview

Barbie is an American icon. But Barbie becomes a problem when the adult fantasy collides with the child's fantasy. All that misplaced Barbie angst of our youth, all the childhood conditioning, and the adult results are revealed at last in Mondo Barbie.

"Barbie is in the air, all right

"Since we began this anthology, we've seen articles on Barbie in magazines as wide-ranging as Parenting, People, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312088485
• ISBN13: 9780312088484
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Love-Hate Barbie Relationship

Loved this book! It has wonderful stories that illumnate the reasons for our love-hate relationship with Barbie. She's just a doll for goodness sake, let's stop blaming her for anorexia!! I loved the 12-step Barbie story best of all. This book rocks!

What a great book!!!

St. Martin's Press must be dumber than a bag of hair to discontinue this book. It's a wonderful mix of Barbie-ania and will certainly be read and discussed among the intelligensia for decades to come. Stupid bastards (St. Martin's, I mean)

A fantastic book

I'll never look at Barbie in quite the same way again. The poems and stories in this book are wonderfully twisted, picking and probing at Barbie from her tip-toe feet to her perfect smile. A demented tour de force.

This is the best book ever written!

Okay, maybe I'm exagerating a bit because I have two poems in there (Hell's Angels Barbie and Confederate Barbie are mine) but there's no two ways about it -- Mondo Barbie rules! Buy this book!!

Shocking, Hilarious, Essential!!!

An excellent anthology of short fiction and poetry concerning the perfect, ever-smiling Barbie. Some of these pieces involve Barbie in suprising ways! Gently explores the vast gap between the doll's vapid perfection and the very imperfect world that we mortals inhabit. Entertaining, thought provoking and fun!