Porn
An Oral History
$28.04
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2023
Summary
How do we talk about porn? Why is it that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us?
In Porn: An Oral History, her extraordinary second book, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for understanding, she spent a year initiating intimate conversations with twenty acquaintances of a range o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804270400 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804270407 |
| Author: | Polly Barton |
| Publisher: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Imprint: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 358g |
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Critics Review
‘A writer of alarming talent.’ - Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction
‘Polly Barton is a brilliant, learned and daring writer.’ - Joanna Kavenna, author of ZED
Polly Barton
Polly Barton is a Japanese literary translator. Her translations include Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura, and Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki. She won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Fifty Sounds. Porn: An Oral History is her second book. She lives in Bristol.
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