Summary
“Kate Braverman’s Lithium for Medea is jumpy, kinetic, and finally very powerful, a deeply felt piece of work by a very gifted young writer.” -Joan DidionLithium for Medea is a tale of addiction: to drugs, to physical love, to dysfunctional family chains. It is also a tale of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry.Rose grew up with an emotionally stunted, narcissistic mother while her father, a veteran gambler, spent his waking hours in the garden cut off from his wife’s harangues. Now an adult, Rose works her way through a string of unhealthy love(less) affairs. After a brief, unhappy marriage, she slips more deeply and dangerously into the lair of a parasitic, cocaine-fed artist whose sensual and manipulative ways she grows unable to resist. Kate Braverman’s story is a drug that leaves one’s perceptions forever altered. Lithium for Medea sears us with Rose’s breathless, fierce, visceral flight.
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: | 19mm x 140mm x 209mm |
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Critics Review
“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
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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