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"To Smithereens is an extraordinarily good book, but then so is everything Rosalyn Drexler ever wrote." -The New York Times
A
provocative, cheeky romp through the Manhattan art scene and the female
wrestling world of the 1970s, from an overlooked star of the Pop Art
movement
When Rosa, a curious, brash twenty-something
flitting aimlessly through the Manhattan avant garde art scene, meets
Paul, an art critic who is obsessed with being dominated by physically
powerful women, an electric and off-kilter love story commences. On
Paul's encouragement, Rosa becomes a professional wrestler and joins the
women's wrestling circuit on a tour of the American South. Through
wrestling, Rosa learns to articulate what kind of life she wants, and to
wriggle free of Paul's attempts to possess her.
To Smithereens is
a lighthearted reconfiguration of the 1970s American road novel and a
delightful satire of the avant garde art world of the same period, in
which Rosalyn Drexler was a major figure. Inspired both by Drexler's
experiences as one of few women in the Pop Art movement and her own
career in the ring (immortalized in Andy Warhol's "Album of a Mat
Queen"), and first published in 1972, To Smithereens is an antic, biting portrait of its time from a voice that speaks directly to ours.
A
provocative, cheeky romp through the Manhattan art scene and the female
wrestling world of the 1970s, from an overlooked star of the Pop Art
movement
When Rosa, a curious, brash twenty-something
flitting aimlessly through the Manhattan avant garde art scene, meets
Paul, an art critic who is obsessed with being dominated by physically
powerful women, an electric and off-kilter love story commences. On
Paul's encouragement, Rosa becomes a professional wrestler and joins the
women's wrestling circuit on a tour of the American South. Through
wrestling, Rosa learns to articulate what kind of life she wants, and to
wriggle free of Paul's attempts to possess her.
To Smithereens is
a lighthearted reconfiguration of the 1970s American road novel and a
delightful satire of the avant garde art world of the same period, in
which Rosalyn Drexler was a major figure. Inspired both by Drexler's
experiences as one of few women in the Pop Art movement and her own
career in the ring (immortalized in Andy Warhol's "Album of a Mat
Queen"), and first published in 1972, To Smithereens is an antic, biting portrait of its time from a voice that speaks directly to ours.