King, Rax

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

(No reviews yet) Write a Review
ISBN 13:
9780593312728
author:
King, Rax
format:
Paperback / softback
publisher:
Vintage Books
language:
English
Publication Year:
2021
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
20.6 x 13 x 1.5 centimeters (0.2
Genre:
Arts & Photography, Art, Popular Culture,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 5 working days
£12.74

Description

Tacky Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer is a deeply personal collection of essays that explore the power of pop culture to shape our experiences. Rax King's writing is a nostalgic antidote to the millennial obsession with irony, finding beauty in the maligned and the overlooked.

Through fourteen essays, King examines the cultural artifacts that have left their mark on her life, from the aesthetics of low pop culture to the complexities of desire, love, and grief. With humor and heartfelt honesty, she reveals the ways in which these artifacts have helped her find joy in the imperfect and the imperfectly perfect.

This is a collection that captures the personal and generational experience of finding joy in the things that are just a little too much, with clarity and wit. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

View AllClose