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Title: My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up
Author: Stephen Elliott
Narrator: T. J. Kastle
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-16-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Erotica & Sexuality, Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
This blistering new collection from literary rising star Stephen Elliott demonstrates once again why his books have been praised as "graceful", "soaring", and "fearless." As with all of Elliott's work, these stories have the raw ring of truth filtered through the author's downbeat-poetic sensibility.
"My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up" follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills.
In "Other Desires", a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator's involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls.
"Tears" explores the disturbing complexities of an S&M Internet hook-up.
Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator's polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski.
Members Reviews:
My girlfriend comes to the city and beats me up
I like reading Stephen Elliot because it feels like I am hearing a story from an old buddy. Maybe I have had some twisted friends in my life? If your family life did not resemble a Norman Rockwell painting then you may be interested in reading his work. If you like Bukowski, Chuck Palahniuk, or just real life stories about survival against all odd but hate to read stories that can be described as "stories of survival against all odds", then Stephen Elliot may be your guy. He writes poetically without being flowery. He writes about beauty but in a dirty gritty way.
True or Not, These Stories Are Kinky, Intense, and Utterly Memorable
The real question in Stephen Elliott's short story collection My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up is not whether these tales are autobiographical or not (though Elliott admits that many are true, or mostly true, in his introduction), but whether Elliott, as narrator, consents to, and likes or does not like, the kinky acts described herein. In powerful, waste-no-words prose, Elliott takes readers on a guided tour through the underbelly of San Francisco and into his narrator's sex life, mental state, and troubled childhood. The city of the book's title plays a major role in these stories, but Elliott is clear to distinguish his version of BDSM from the "safe, sane and consensual" model best embodied by the City by the Bay's kinksters. This distinction is explicitly stated several times throughout My Girlfriend Comes... and the power dynamics behind his interest in kink are what make this an emotionally compelling, disturbing and vital read. Each tenet of "safe, sane and consensual" is revisited again and again until it's anyone's guess which side the stories fall on.
During the scenes Elliott describes, he often asks questions for which there is no answer. In the title story, his girlfriend comes to visit and duly beats him up, but it;s her words that leave the harshest blows.