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title: "White Girls Paperback – August 5, 2014"
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# White Girls Paperback – August 5, 2014

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Something New and True
  

*by P***C on Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2014*

I don't have a lot of time at the moment, but can't leave this page without raving a little about White Girls.  I've never read another book like it, not quite like it, and I will read many, perhaps all of these essays again.  I say essays, but Als does things with his essays that make them original.  His use of personas such as Richard Pryor's sister is..what it is, engaging, compelling, and utilitarian; with those personas we see from unique perspectives, reflecting the times of people such as Malcolm X's mother.  I like the Capote essay, the O'Connor essay, Malcolm, and Pryor essays.  The first essay, totally original, and the last totally compelling, but really this entire collection is original and compelling.  "It Will Soon Be Here" is a masterpiece, which, I'm sure will be anthologized in years to come.  I'm very curious about Diana Sands, (Beneatha in my favorite American play) and I'm curious about Als' weaving Kafka's cockroach into the Pryor essay.  This book is lyrical, written by someone in love with language, and compelling, written by someone digging for truth in himself and the world, though digging's not the word I want.  White Girls is author-driven, not dollar-driven.  It's against stereotypes, and is intensely political, and global.  It blends fact and fiction, it risks, and succeeds.  Hats off to Hilton Als.  Thanks for this much needed book!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great collection
  

*by S***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2021*

In White Girls, critic and essayist Hilton Als has assembled a remarkable collection of prose. Traversing a range of topics and figures, his analyses of gender, race, sexuality, and mass culture are alive, teeming with insight. “Triste Tropiques” is an extraordinary essay that mobilizes key structuralist principles to explore the nature of love and identity. Additional essays (such as the one on Richard Pryor), are balanced and highly engaging.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Remarkable, self-indulgent, amazing, frustrating, deeply insightful
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2016*

Als is a critic for the New Yorker, but that's barely relevant to White Girls, even if it includes some of his more traditional criticism. Al's is a whirlwind, a force of nature, a crazed intelligence absorbing and recontextualizing every last drop of America into something strange and probably more true. The book is about white girls in a metaphoric sense - I think Richard Pryor counts as one according to Als - but it's really about a unique person trying to understand themselves by understanding the world. There are parts that are filled with so much poetic insight that it seems impossible, and other sections that are so turgid with self-Indulgence that it almost seems like narcissism. And it doesn't matter because it's like a modern Walt Whitman deconstructing his mind in a performance piece. Hardly perfect, but genuinely compelling.

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