Lost on me
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A bestseller and award-winner in Veronica Raimos native Italy, Lost on Me is an irreverent and hilariously inverted bildungsroman from one of the most celebrated young writers working today.
Born into a family with an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the center of their attention, our heroine Vero languishes in boredom in her childhood home. Peering through tiny windows while cramped in her family coven, Vero periodically attempts to strike out but is no match for her mothers relentless tracking methods and masterful guilt trips. Veros every venture outside their Rome apartment ends in her being unceremoniously returned home. Its no wonder that she becomes a writer and a liar inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity.
Spikey and clever, Vero delights in her own devious schemes. As she guides us through her failed attempts at emancipation, her discovery of sex and fixations with unwitting men, and ultimately her contentious relationship with reality, she also brings alive Rome from the 1980s through the early 2000s. With restless intelligence and covert tenderness, Lost on Me takes on the uncertain enterprise of becoming a woman.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 27 juni 2023
Aantal pagina's: 224
Hoofdauteur: Veronica Raimo
Hoofduitgeverij: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Eerste Vertaler: Leah Janeczko
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 20 mm
Verpakking lengte: 201 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 229 g
EAN: 9780802162045