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The Faculty of Dreams: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019

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"One of the most genuinely insubordinate books I have read, and one of the most beautiful . . . this book earns its laurels" Katy Waldman, New Yorker

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019

In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.

In The Faculty of Dreams, Sara Stridsberg revisits the hotel room where Solanas ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857054722
SKU
9780857054722
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg, born in 1972, is a writer, playwright and former member of the Swedish Academy. Her first novel, Happy Sally, was published in 2004, and her break-through came two years later with the publication of The Faculty of Dreams, her second novel, the English translation of which was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2019. Her novels have ... Read more

Reviews for The Faculty of Dreams: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
One of the most genuinely insubordinate books I have read, and one of the most beautiful . . . this book earns its laurels
Katy Waldman
New Yorker
Brilliant, multi-layered, thrilling ... a burning love letter with icy observation at its core
Svenska Dagbladet
Stridsberg's evocation of Valerie Solanas conjures images that are poetic and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Faculty of Dreams: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019


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