Summary
Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction-to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains-as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose-the daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally crippled mother and a father who shadowboxes with death in hospital corridors-as she slips deeply and dangerously into the lair of a cocaine-fed artist in the bohemian squalor of Venice. Lithium for Medea sears us with Rose’s breathle…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583224717 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583224718 |
| Author: | Kate Braverman |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 425g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 140mm x 19mm |
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“Braverman’s dialogue is cruelly brilliant, her style a pounding, jumpy staccato of accuracy, fierce and glittering and relentless.” - Arkansas Gazette “The prose is vital and original, the characters are haunting, and the structure is rich and subtle… Braverman will be come a major voice.” - L.A. Weekly “A great tragedy.” - The New York Times
About The Author
Kate Braverman
KATE BRAVERMAN is a native of Los Angeles who grew up surrounded by the counterculture of San Francisco. She has published several novels, including The Incantation of Frida K. (2002), Wonders of the West (1993), Palm Latitudes (1988), and Lithium for Medea (1979), books of poetry-Postcards from August (1990), Hurricane Warnings (1987), Lullaby for Sinners (1980), and Milkrun (1977)-and a collection of stories, Squandering the Blue (1990). She won the O. Henry Award in 1992.
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