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The Imago Stage

The Imago Stage

Georges, Karoline
Mullins, Rhonda

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Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1552454029
ISBN13: 9781552454022
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: Jul 28 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Longlisted for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award

A woman must emerge from the virtual world she's created to confront her flesh-and-blood past and family.


Growing up with a menacing drunk for a father and a grief-stricken mother, a girl spends her 1980s childhood staring at the television to escape the tension, depression, and looming violence that fill her suburban home. After winning a modelling competition, she dedicates herself to becoming a placid image onto which anything can be projected, a blank slate with a blank stare. Earning enough in Paris to retire in her twenties, she buys a studio in Montreal and retreats from the world and its perceived threats, cultivating her existence as an image through her virtual reality avatar. But when her mother develops cancer and nears the end of her life, she is forced to leave her cocoon - surrounded by her posse of augmented reality superheroes - and interact with the world and her parents without the mask of her perfect, virtual self.

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