When seeing the graveyard of skeletons, including what's presumably the remains of Kong's parents, it becomes clear that Kong has a lot of growing to do. It is arresting from the very first lines there's something aggressively incantatory about it, a kind of battle-rap braggadocio.This can be chalked up to the fact that he is not fully grown, which Hank Marlow, the stranded World War II soldier, remarks when meeting those working under Monarch and Colonel Packard. She also resembles, by turns, William Gibson, George Eliot and Michel Houellebecq, with a sunnier attitude.' - Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick 'Part-memoir, part-critical treatise on masculinity and power, with reference to rape, pornography, and prostitution, King Kong Theory is the kind of book you want to place in the hands of everyone you know. This short fiery book is essential.' - Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls 'In the dire age of corporatized and sanitised feminism, King Kong Theory is the radical - and darkly funny - manifesto we need.' - Amelia Abraham, author of Queer Intentions 'Despentes is often described as a 'rock-and-roll' Balzac. This is liberatory galloping prose, inhale it now and if you've read it before read it again in this new jangling translation, ornery and alive like we need to be.

It's a fuck-you push-back against a blood-sucking patriarchal culture that keeps murdering and raping women till they get the idea (the survivors, ha) that they should be stupidly grateful to serve men, just lucky to even be allowed to play. This book is a classic, and I'm so grateful for it.' - Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts 'I love King Kong Theory.

In a world that continues to have difficulty contending with sex work, porn, class, and sexual violence without resorting to tired tropes, Virginie Despentes offers a fresh, necessary, inspiring path forward, just as she has been doing for decades now in a variety of media. 'I can think of almost no book I've enjoyed in recent years as much as King Kong Theory - in part for its content, in part for the ferocity of its style.

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