Valencia
'An exuberant, hilarious record of an unprecedented and mutinous time in queer history' Maggie Nelson
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Published:5th Jun '25
Should be back in stock very soon
A fast-paced account of one year in San Francisco's underground scene, filled with sex, drugs and the never-ending search for true love.
The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea's classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts'A wonderfully disgusting book ... invigorating' DAZED Best Books for Pride Month The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea's classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts 'One of the few truly life changing books I've encountered' Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby Fleeing Tucson and her troublesome on-and-off ex-girlfriend, Michelle lands in queer San Francisco's riotous underbelly, stumbling through her early twenties in a haze of nightlife, drug adventures, scams and a string of hookups, break-ups and make-ups. As butches and dykes spin in and out of her orbit, she considers the force and casual cruelty of their desires and her own. Heady, beer-sticky and brimming with life, Valencia is a sharply observed and piercingly funny chronicle of a year lived close to the bone. 'If you want to know how dangerous and great and awful it is to be a girl, you'll scarf Valencia right up' Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls 'Michelle Tea is an intoxicating writer, delivering sentences that land with the snap and force of a punch' Guardian
Michelle Tea is an intoxicating writer, delivering sentences that land with the snap and force of a punch * Guardian *
Valencia is one of the few true life-changer books I've encountered. One of those books that gets casually slipped to you, and then, a couple hours later, you understand you've been living all wrong -- Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby
If you want to know how dangerous and great and awful it is to be a girl you'll scarf Valencia right up. The street today is full of girls if you haven't noticed -- Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls
Hilarious, euphoric, perspicacious and punk - the book that showed so many of us how writing can be real -- Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar
I consider Michelle Tea a literary MOTHER. I will forever tip my hat to her and the timeless and immortal text that is Valencia -- Brontez Purnell, author of 100 Boyfriends
An electrifying chronicle of queer life in 1990s San Francisco. Written raw, as events unfolded, Valencia is a feverish, unforgettable coming-of-age story that helped define a generation - a cult classic that pulses with honesty, and the uncontainable desire to live and write freely * Dazed *
ISBN: 9781805226819
Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
Weight: 240g
288 pages
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