Trash

By Dorothy Allison

Book Overview

Trash, Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "simply stunning...a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent." In addition to Allison's classic stories, this new edition of Trash features "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories," an introduction in which Allison discusses the writing of Trash and "Compassion," a never-before-published short story.

First published in 1988, the award-winning Trash showcases Allison at her most fearlessly honest and startlingly vivid. The limitless scope of human emotion and experience are depicted in stories that give aching and eloquent voice to the terrible wounds we inflict on those closest to us. These are tales of loss and redemption; of shame and forgiveness; of love and abuse and the healing power of storytelling.

A book that resonates with uncompromising candor and incandescence, Trash is sure to captivate Allison's legion of readers and win her a devoted new following.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452283515
• ISBN13: 9780452283510
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent Shipping - Book in excellent condition.

I was very pleased with this book - the packaging, the timeliness of the shipper and the condition of the book. From one Southern belle to another, Dorothy Allison rocks the Mason Dixon Line! A must read.

Winner of two Lambda Literary Awards

Powerful and not to be missed. This is a collection of autobiographical narratives, essays, and performance pieces that you will never (and should never) forget. The author Tee A. Corinne in her book `Lovers: love and sex stories' says "Dorothy Allison crafts from her own life powerful erotic passages that defy circumspect parameters..." This was the most intense reading I have done in a long time. This should be recommended...

pour the southern comfort & get to reading

What an amazing book. Ms. Allison illustrates vivdly the many componets that go into making each of us who we are. This is not a book of stories to be quickly read through-- each one resonates intensly,like an unforgetable piece of music on a long drive.

Not just lesbian fiction

Trash is a great book of short stories written by Dorothy Allison. Although she the winner of book awards for lesbian fiction, her stories also tell of a tragic childhood, growing up as white trash, and of a family life involving alcholism, abuse and tragedy. The stories are difficult to read at times, due to the agonizing adversity the she has faced, but it is peppered with comic relief, sarcasm and wit.

A series of insightful autobiographical sketches

Trash, billed as a book of short stories, was more like a book of essays - anticdotal, reflective, sometimes funny, often tragic - which give the reader a sense of sitting around the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and an old friend named Dorothy Allison. I loved Trash because I felt closer to Allison after reading it - she is one of my favorite authors, and this book brought me to a better understanding of her both...