Shock treatment
By: Karen Finley ; with illustrations by the author
Edition: Expanded 25th anniversary edition.
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780872866911
Subjects: Monologues; Performance art
Work titles: Works
Description: "Shock Treatment is Karen Finley's first book, published just as she became internationally famous for being denied an NEA grant because of perceived obscenity in her work. In it, she captures the drama and fragility of the AIDS era and distills the emotional turmoil of that time with excoriating monologues and essays. With a new introductory essay by the author"--