As Seen on TV: Provocations

From the author of the unforgettable Autobiography of A Face comes a collection of wonderfully unexpected essays on life, love, sex, God and politics.

Whether she is contemplating promiscuity or The New Testament, lamenting about what she should have said to Oprah, or learning to tango, Grealy seduces and surprises the reader at every turn. With the sheer brilliance of her imagination, Grealy leads us on delightful journeys with her wit, unflinching honesty and peerless intelligence. As Seen On TV breaks the mould of the essay, and is destined, like the memoir that preceded it, to become a modern classic.

You are here: a map to this book —
As seen on TV —
Nerve —
Mirrorings —
What it takes —
Fool in boots —
The country of childhood —
My God —
A brief sketch of myself at fourteen —
Written in four voices for the Hungry Mind Review issue on regional writing —
The story so far —
The right language —
The present tense —
Twin world —
The girls —
The yellow house