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In the Dream House: A Memoir ~ SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE
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In the Dream House: A Memoir ~ SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE Trade paperback - 2020

by Machado, Carmen Maria

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SCARCE SIGNED! FIRST EDITION, later printing. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed directly to the full title page by Ms. Machado. Flat signed, not inscribed to anyone. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Photos available upon request. A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope―the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman―through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado's dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
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  • Title In the Dream House: A Memoir ~ SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE
  • Author Machado, Carmen Maria
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition Trade Paperback Signed
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Graywolf Press
  • Date 2020
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 759
  • ISBN 9781644450383 / 1644450380
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Lesbians
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020940091
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • BookPage, 11/01/2019, Page 0

About the author

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife.

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