- Hardcover: 184 pages
- Publisher: Continuum; New edition edition (Jun 3 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0826491472
- ISBN-13: 978-0826491473
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.2 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 299 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
In this roughly chronological account of her political formation, Dworkin, a prolific writer and ardent antipornography activist, shares the moments her "memory insists on," things "it will not let go." Thus, from grade school through college (what she calls "the archetypical brothel"), there are sexually predatory teachers, morally bankrupt intellectuals and plenty of molested and "incested" victims. The moral compass of these anecdotes can be dizzying. Dworkin's pedophilic high school teacher running a "menage a quatre" with a couple of her girlfriends was "the snake" offering worldly knowledge; she was his "little Eva" going along with his games. Yet there's no restraining the venom when it comes to an overly prim junior high English teacher who had the nerve to try to comfort her when she was mad about getting a B: "I knew I'd get her someday and this is it: eat shit, bitch." Her college years yielded a few political insurrection anecdotes, followed by some European travel stories, but the narrative segues increasingly into discussions of rape and other forms of violence against women. Jail's too good for most rapists and batterers; she'd have their victims shoot them dead. When "pedophile" Allen Ginsberg fretted about being sent to jail after the Supreme Court upheld the criminalization of child porn, she wished him dead, too. She ends with a long-winded lament of "the worst immoralit[ies]" mostly concerning selling out one's principles, giving up and pretending not to see injustices which all boil down to "a single sin of human nothingness and stupidity." "I don't care about being understood," Dworkin concludes, but not being understood may be the least ofher problems here. Agent, Elaine Markson. (Mar. 1)Forecast:This memoir covers little new ground, but at least it's much shorter than Dworkin's previous works. This and the book's timing (its publication coincides with Women's History Month) may entice readers.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Review
'Dworkin appears before us, ravaged and thundering like one of Shakespeare's Plantagenet queens, to deliver her fearsome maledictions...one of the few remaining specimens of pure counterculture Romanticism' New York Times Book Review
'...Ultimately, it's a heart-healing journey of redemption and realization.'
'...The story of a deeply committed human being willing to challenge injustice where she sees it...In our deeply conformist age, Dworkin provides a model of conscience in action that should inspire everyone of any stripe to look, to listen, to think.'
'...Ultimately, it's a heart-healing journey of redemption and realization.'
'...The story of a deeply committed human being willing to challenge injustice where she sees it...In our deeply conformist age, Dworkin provides a model of conscience in action that should inspire everyone of any stripe to look, to listen, to think.'
'the title [Heartbreak] might even be enough to keep it out of the gender studies section of any bookshop. Rather, it will be placed with all the other memoirs of victimised women.
Heartbreak is not the memoir of a victim. Dworkin's tone is dry and humorous. Her personality is warm and likeable and, shockingly, she has a wicked sense of humour.'
(Tamara Kaminsky Times )'Heartbreak ... is her last completed book. In it, her great, passionate voice lives on.'
(Michael Moorcock Daily Telegraph, The )'you could not get a voice more intensely alive - in its analysis of inequities which bind and divide women across race and class, its incisive accounts of oppression and the costs of resistance, its eloquent love of creativity, and its take-no-prisioners truth-telling.'
(Christine Bold Times Literary Supplement )'Andrea Dworkin's contentious reputation is a perfect example of media manipulation. This collection of memoirs, published to commemorate the first anniversary of her death, confirms that every bolshy, out-spoken freedom-fighter who is the anti-type of standard Western glamour, fast becomes a scapegoat for the hatred of unpopular and hard-to-sell ideas; such as feminism.'
The Crack, 1 July 2006
'the title [Heartbreak] might even be enough to keep it out of the gender studies section of any bookshop. Rather, it will be placed with all the other memoirs of victimised women.
Heartbreak is not the memoir of a victim. Dworkin's tone is dry and humorous. Her personality is warm and likeable and, shockingly, she has a wicked sense of humour.'
(, Times )'Heartbreak ... is her last completed book. In it, her great, passionate voice lives on.'
(, Daily Telegraph, The )'you could not get a voice more intensely alive - in its analysis of inequities which bind and divide women across race and class, its incisive accounts of oppression and the costs of resistance, its eloquent love of creativity, and its take-no-prisioners truth-telling.'
(, Times Literary Supplement )
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Intense love-literature!,
By jason gilmour (Toronto, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heartbreak (Paperback)
I love Andrea Dworkin. Her books are so filled with rage and utter hatred that the most vile texts pale in comparison. This is the blistering manifesto of a soul that is bent on revenge and destruction of her enemies. Dworkin stews and boils in the flames of abuse, victimization and rejection that consume her wild imagination. Dworkin is out to roll over any man-folk and weaker female that stands in her way. Dworkin's MASSIVE intelect is focused like a super powered lazer beam on the very heart of the he-man patriarchy that has caused her so much pain and suffering. Dworkin's STEAMROLLERESQUE prose will send even the most macho he-devil a-runnin'. Dworkin ain't the BIG name in feminism for nothing.
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Andrea's Memoir,
By otter (canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heartbreak (Paperback)
I feel compelled to respond to the synopsis of "Heartbreak: Memoirs of a Feminist Militant" provided above by "Cahners Business Information, Inc". I found this book to be touching, well written, and prescient. While many will find Andrea's views too extreme for their comfort, I think she was one of this century's great minds. For me, her humanity and her compassion shine all the way through this memoir.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Andrea's memoir,
By otter (canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant (Hardcover)
I feel compelled to respond to the synopsis of "Heartbreak: Memoirs of a Feminist Militant" provided above by "Cahners Business Information, Inc". I found this book to be touching, well written, and prescient. While many will find Andrea's views too extreme for their comfort, I think she was one of this century's great minds. For me, her humanity and her compassion shine all the way through this memoir.
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