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In the Dream House
Winner of The Rathbones Folio Prize 2021
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In the Dream House
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the prizewinning author of Her Body and Other Parties.
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the prizewinning author of Her Body and Other Parties
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'Ravishingly beautiful' - Observer
'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' - Irish Times
'Provocative and rich' - Economist
'Daring, chilling, and unlike anything else you've ever read' - Esquire
'An absolute must-read for 2020' - Stylist
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.
Each chapter views the relationship through a different lens, as Machado holds events up to the light and examines them from distinct angles. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction, infusing all with her characteristic wit, playfulness and openness to enquiry.
The result is a powerful book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
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Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House receives high praise for its inventive and compelling narrative, praised as an incandescent memoir that redefines the genre. Critics highlight its powerful exploration of domestic abuse in a queer relationship, blending genres with haunting precision and critique. Machado's writing is described as sublimely inventive, combining raw honesty with lyrical creativity, making her work a remarkable and necessary addition to modern memoir literature.
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ISBN: 9781788162258
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 194.0mm
Weight: 260g
Pages: 304
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About the Author
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the writer-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she lives with her wife.
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