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Victorine

Victorine

Castle, Terry
Hutchins, Maude

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

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Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1590172701
ISBN13: 9781590172704
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Jul 1 2008
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
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.

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