A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations - Cintra Wilson • BookLikes (ISBN:014100195X)

A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations

by: Cintra Wilson (author)

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780141001951 (014100195X)

Publish date: July 1st 2001

Publisher: Penguin

Pages no: 256

Edition language: English

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Non Fiction, Humor, Writing, Essays, Language, Culture, Sociology, Pop Culture

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This is basically a series of essays in which Cintra Wilson (a regular columnist in Salon and the Huffington Post) uncorks on celebrities and the celebration of fame. Her writing is biting and cruel and wickedly funny at times, but reading an entire book of it is tiring, like watching a really loud,...

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