Sea, Poison

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Beschreibung

<p>Cumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia-<em>this city of hospitals</em>-who works at the upscale grocery Sea &amp; Poison and is navigating the onset of an autoimmune condition. To start a medication that may help, an eye exam is required, and this leads to a nightmare laser eye surgery. The laser shoots into her brain, making her language spare and her sentences clauseless, a vexing constraint that stalls her book on gynecological malpractice. She wants others, in the realm of our for-profit medical industry "that renders the Hippocratic Oath its opposite," to<em> see poison</em>.</p><p>Meanwhile, Cumin is kicked out of her boyfriend Mari's studio after he falls for Janine, their landlord, and starts renting a closet in the bedroom of polyamorous Maron-who is hooking up with Alix, whom Cumin lusts after. Disheveled from medicines and medical scams, Cumin declares, "The BDE of Alix was getting to me. A coin purse of leopard neck muscles was opening in my underpants!"</p><p>Caren Beilin's darkly funny, hypnotic story is at once an homage to Shusaku Endo's terrifying novel of human vivisection <em>The Sea and Poison</em> and to the spirit of OuLiPo, the pioneering French writing group that sought new literary potential through constraints.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780811239516

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 127 x 10 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

New Directions Publishing Corporation