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008			160524t20172017nyu 000 0aeng
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020			_a9781632866578 _qhardcover
020			_a1632866579 _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)950901604 _z(OCoLC)948336480
042			_apcc
092			_aFebos, M. _bF289
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aFebos, Melissa, _eauthor. _9326136
245	1	0	_aAbandon me : _bmemoirs / _cMelissa Febos.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bBloomsbury USA, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017
300			_a308 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection -- with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time. Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming, long-distance love affair with a woman, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral, erotic prose, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession -- and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another. At once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive investigation of art, love, and identity, Abandon Me draws on childhood stories, religion, psychology, mythology, popular culture, and the intimacies of one writer's life to reveal intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal."-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aThe Book of Hours -- Leave Marks -- Call My Name -- Labyrinths -- All of Me -- Wunderkammer -- Girl at a Window -- Abandon Me.
600	1	0	_aFebos, Melissa _xFamily. _9326137
600	1	0	_aFebos, Melissa _xRelations with women. _9326138
600	1	0	_aFebos, Melissa _xPsychology. _9326139
650		0	_aWomen _xIdentity. _9245058
650		0	_aAuthors, American _y21st century _vBiography. _985646
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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