In the dream house / Carmen Maria Machado.
Publication details: London : Serpent's Tail, 2020.Description: 283 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781788162241 (hardback)
- 1788162242 (hardback)
- Machado, Carmen Maria
- Machado, Carmen Maria
- Psychological abuse
- Lesbian partner abuse
- Literature
- Gay/Lesbian Interest
- Autobiographies
- Psychological abuse
- Psychological abuse victims -- United States -- Biography
- Lesbian partner abuse
- Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
- Abused lesbians -- United States -- Biography
- Lesbians -- United States -- Biography
- 362.829 23
- PS3613
- Winner 2021 Folio Prize.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 362.829 MACH | Available | 061745 |
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Each chapter views the relationship through a different lens, as Machado holds events up to the light and examines them from distinct angles. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction, infusing all with her characteristic wit, playfulness and openness to enquiry. The result is a powerful book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
Winner 2021 Folio Prize.