Author: Virginie Despentes
Publisher: Feminist Press
2010
"Despentes has become a kind of cult hero, a patron saint to invisible women: the monstrous and marginalized, the sodden, weary and wildly unemployable, the kind of woman who can scarcely be propped up let alone persuaded to lean in." ―Parul Sehgal, New York Times
"Despentes writes not as other people speak but as she speaks, with unbridled brutality. There is an almost sacrificial generosity to her voice, a willingness to say it for you that makes any woman want to copy out the phrases as her own . . . King Kong Theory is blistering with anger, and so precisely phrased that it feels an injustice to summarize it." ―Nadja Spiegelman, New York Review of Books