Book information
The New York Review of Books, Inc
USA
2015
Main
Paperback
240
Standard
290689
978-1-59017-844-7
1-59017-844-0
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Annotation
"Talk" is a hilariously irreverent and racy testament to dialogue: the gossip, questioning, analysis, arguments, and revelations that make up our closest friendships. It s the summer of 1965 and Emily, Vincent, and Marsha are at the beach. All three are ambitious and artistic; all are hovering around thirty; and all are deeply and mercilessly invested in analyzing themselves and everyone around them. The friends discuss sex, shrinks, psychedelics, sculpture, and S and M in an ongoing dialogue where anything goes and no topic is off limits. "Talk" is the result of these conversations, recorded by Linda Rosenkrantz and transformed into a novel whose form and content put it well ahead of its time. Controversial upon its first publication in 1968, "Talk" remains fresh, lascivious, and laugh-out-loud funny nearly fifty years later.
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