Toad

A Novel

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Beschreibung

<p><b>A previously unpublished novel of the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman, from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of <i>Geek Love</i>.</b><br><br>Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning supplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her own body, and her wayward early twenties, when she was a fish out of water among a group of eccentric, privileged young people at a liberal arts college. There was Sam, an unabashed collector of other people's stories; Carlotta, a troubled free spirit; and Rennel, a self-obsessed philosophy student. Self-deprecating and sardonic, Sally recounts their misadventures, up to the tragedy that tore them apart.<br><br>Colorful, crass, and profound, <i>Toad</i> is Katherine Dunn's ode to her time as a student at Reed College in the late 1960s. It is filled with the same mordant observations about the darkest aspects of human nature that made <i>Geek Love</i> a cult classic and Dunn a misfit hero. Daring and bizarre, <i>Toad</i> demonstrates her genius for black humor and her ecstatic celebration of the grotesque. Fifty-some years after it was written, <i>Toad</i> is a timely story about the ravages of womanhood and a powerful addition to the canon of feminist fiction.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781250872296

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

206 x 140 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Macmillan USA