Victorine
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Victorine has its own feral brilliance ... Hutchins can write with perverse and often disquieting power. - The London Review of BooksVictorine is 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 Lynchs Blue Velvet and the contemporary paintings of Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin.The eponymous Victorine is thirteen, and she cant 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, Victorines older brother Costello is struggling to hold his own against the overbearing, mean-spirited, utterly ghastly Hector LHommedieu, a paterfamilias who collects and discards mistresses with scheming abandon even as Allison, his wife, drifts through life in a narcotic daze.Profoundly human and recognizable - yet discomforting, chilling and disturbing. The writing here is brilliant, glittering and exciting ... scented decadence and surrealistic bizarrerie reveal a special talent and a very special taste ... precious and perverse - KirkusMaude Hutchins, an all but forgotten American writer, brings an extraordinary clarity to her descriptions. Her prose is sparse and vivid. She writes as if her nerve endings are in her pen. Colours, tastes, smells, sounds, touches pour onto the page. - The Irish TimesMaude Hutchins has a forcefully genuine talent... She is among the most imaginatively creative women writing in English. - The New York TimesVictorine established [Hutchins] reputation as a richly ironical imagist - Time MagazineAbout the authorMaude Phelps McVeigh Hutchins is considered one of the foremost practitioners of nouveau roman in the English language. H
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