Glory Goes and Gets Some: Stories
by Emily Carter
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Author: Emily CarterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-10-05
ISBN: 0312282516
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Picador
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- ISBN13: 9780312282516
- Condition: New
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Book Review: How the world cheats brilliant, controversial girls
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want to read a book narrated by protagonists who have suffered for their nonconformity, sensitivity, and intelligence, you will undoubtedly have many choices. But if you want your protagonist to be all this and FEMALE, you do not have many choices. Most female-narrated books fall into a few tiresome categories. To name a few: 1. The long-suffering wife/mother drama,involving abusive husbands, messed-up kids, elderly parents...basically the protagonist has little to distinguish her personality from the million other relationally-obsessed women going through these issues, resulting in a tame and tepid narrative voice 2. The irritating 'chick-lit' genre, in which the narrator drones on and on about her weight, shopping, and boys 3. Morality tales of 'bad girls' who've engaged in the same societally-disliked activities that many men do (drugs, sex, alcoholism, gambling, theft, etc.) but because they are female, their activities are considered less edgy and more sleazy/appalling. The book therefore, in order to teach this lesson (that men can misbehave but women can't without paying a dear price mostly due to their gender), involves the protagonist getting raped, pregnant, prostituting herself--all gender-specific maladies--before entering some treatment program and eventually (years down the road) becoming the sort of tame woman who would narrate #2. The narrator will feel guilt over her 'misbehavior', often blaming her poor treatment at the hands of men on her drug use rather than on her own personality, her ways of dealing with men, society's norms regarding male/female interactions, or on the individual men themselves. That being said, Glory Goes And Get Some is the ONE NOVEL I HAVE FOUND that doesn't fall into this tiresome trap. She is a complex character with conflicting motives (to be glamorous, to be controversial, to be liked, to be the one doing the liking, to be a participant, to be an adored spectator, to connect, to obliterate her desire for connection). Her analysis of others' similar contradictions (particularly the 'feminist' mother whose entire life is ruled by manipulating men to her own ends) is particularly brilliant. While Glory's acceptance of treatment center idiocy is a bit unlikely, even this itself is explained through her character's desperation for anything, no matter how silly, to cling to during difficult times. The reader will find some of Glory's choices infuriating, yet will cry at the direction her life takes, knowing it could not be otherwise. Upon finishing this book, I thought to myself, "Had Glory been born male, she would have been a celebrated character in one of the pantheons of druggie lit; perhaps a great writer or musician. As a female, her unconventional looks and disturbed brilliant mind condemns her to a life working non-skill jobs in Minnesota, battling HIV and enduring Narcotics Anonymous homilies." This is the true tragedy of the book. Those who dislike this book because of Glory's character--not because of their own adherence to societal views regarding sex and illegal drugs--cannot appreciate a female protagonist who is every bit the disturbed debaucherous genius as many, many male protagonists.
Summary of Glory Goes and Gets Some: Stories
How is a woman in her thirties, HIV-positive and fresh out of rehab, supposed to find love and work in contemporary, urban America? Emily Carter?s critically acclaimed debut traces Glory?s journey from her addictions to heroin and alcohol in New York to her rebirth in Minnesota?s recovery community. Glory Goes and Gets Some is a streetwise and sardonic look at sex, HIV, addiction, and recovery.
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