Indelicacy
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FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
"Cains small but mighty novel reads like a ghost story and packs the punch of a feminist classic." The New York Times Book Review
A haunted feminist fable, Amina Cains Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams.
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society, and a maid, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming laborsocial and eroticbut she is now, however passively, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary?
Reminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector, and Jean Genet, Amina Cain's Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. It is a novel about seeing, class, desire, anxiety, pleasure, friendship, and the battle to find ones true calling.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 09 februari 2021
Aantal pagina's: 176
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Amina Cain
Tweede Auteur: Amina Cain
Hoofduitgeverij: Picador USA
Editie: 1
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 130 mm
Product hoogte: 13 mm
Product lengte: 193 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 13 mm
Verpakking lengte: 193 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 91 g
EAN: 9781250785718