Overview

Victorine is thirteen, and she can't get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine's older brother Costello is struggling to hold his own against the overbearing, mean-spirited, utterly ghastly Hector L'Hommedieu, a paterfamilias who collects and discards mistresses with scheming abandon even as Allison, his wife, drifts through life in a narcotic daze.

And Maude Hutchins's Victorine? It's a sly, shocking, one-of-a-kind novel that explores sex and society with wayward and unabashedly weird inspiration, a drive-by snapshot of the great abject American family in its suburban haunts by a literary maverick whose work looks forward to--and sometimes outstrips--David Lynch's Blue Velvet and the contemporary paintings of Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin.

ISBN-13

9781590172704

ISBN-10

1590172701

Weight

0.51 Pounds

Dimensions

5.09 x 0.56 x 8.24 In

List Price

$14.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Pages

208 pages

Publisher

NYRB Classics

Published On

2008-08-19



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