num_pages: 344
description: White Girls Hilton Alss first book since The Women fourteen years ago finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature art and music with fearless insights on race gender and history. The result is an extraordinary complex portrait of white girls as Als dubs theman expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks Malcolm X and Flannery OConnor. In pieces that hairpin between critique and meditation fiction and nonfiction high culture and low the theoretical and the deeply personal Als presents a stunning portrait of a writer by way of his subjects and an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.
language: English
title: White Girls
publisher: McSweeney's