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Dolores
Lauren Aimee Curtis
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Description for Dolores
Paperback.
On a hot day in late June, a young girl kneels outside a convent, then falls on her face. When the nuns take her in, they name her Dolores.
Dolores adjusts to the rhythm of her new life - to the nuns with wild hairs curling from their chins, the soup chewed as if it were meat, the bells that ring throughout the day.
But in the dark, private theatre of her mind are memories - of love motels lit by neon red hearts, discos in abandoned hospitals and a boy called Angelo.
And inside her, a baby is growing.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474611930
SKU
9781474611930
Shipping Time
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About Lauren Aimee Curtis
Lauren Aimee Curtis (b. 1988) is a writer from Sydney, Australia. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Best Summer Stories, Catapult, The Atlas Review, Sydney Review of Books, Fireflies, Cordite Poetry Review, Australian Book Review, and elsewhere. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. She currently teaches at the University of Technology, Sydney where she is completing a PhD on the works of Renata Adler and Elizabeth Hardwick. DOLORES is her debut novel.
Reviews for Dolores
Dolores is a glowing, beating heart of a book; Curtis' sentences manage to be both mysterious and precise, creating a potent atmosphere that resonates beyond its brevity
Megan Hunter, author of THE END WE START FROM Dolores reads the way a first novel should: short, lyrical, intense, and with adventurous ambition
Nell Zink, author of THE WALLCREEPER and MISLAID Rich, melodic and marked by a troubling sensuality, Dolores depicts the strange pleasures a young girl might take in her body, and the perils and liberations such pleasures hold
Sue Rainsford, author of FOLLOW ME TO GROUND A succinct, intense story ... this atmospheric debut is a deliciously satisfying read about a girl at a critical juncture in her life
BookRiot
Dolores is propulsive, atmospheric, wonderfully peculiar, a little dark. A dreamy hallucination
Amina Cain, author of INDELICACY Precise, intense and aching, Dolores moves seamlessly between sensuality and realism. I read it in a couple of fevered hours and lived in its heady atmosphere for days afterwards. Short and mysterious, Dolores is a compelling, one-sitting read ... Curtis writes the close-up details of life in the convent with as much intensity as the burgeoning sexuality of a young girl, and the two elements chime in a strange harmony
Observer
Blurring the borders past and present, sex and religion, desire and shame, Lauren Aimee Curtis's debut novel Dolores is a short and potent story of a young woman in trouble
Irish Times
This skilfully written and disquieting novella takes a character from contemporary life, gives her a classic female problem, and places her in an almost timeless setting, and the result is a hypnotic and powerfully affecting read
Sydney Morning Herald, 'Pick of the Week
Dolores is a taut and moody novella ... In burnished prose, Curtis raises potent questions about how women control their bodies and destinies when subject to institutional forces.
Megan Hunter, author of THE END WE START FROM Dolores reads the way a first novel should: short, lyrical, intense, and with adventurous ambition
Nell Zink, author of THE WALLCREEPER and MISLAID Rich, melodic and marked by a troubling sensuality, Dolores depicts the strange pleasures a young girl might take in her body, and the perils and liberations such pleasures hold
Sue Rainsford, author of FOLLOW ME TO GROUND A succinct, intense story ... this atmospheric debut is a deliciously satisfying read about a girl at a critical juncture in her life
BookRiot
Dolores is propulsive, atmospheric, wonderfully peculiar, a little dark. A dreamy hallucination
Amina Cain, author of INDELICACY Precise, intense and aching, Dolores moves seamlessly between sensuality and realism. I read it in a couple of fevered hours and lived in its heady atmosphere for days afterwards. Short and mysterious, Dolores is a compelling, one-sitting read ... Curtis writes the close-up details of life in the convent with as much intensity as the burgeoning sexuality of a young girl, and the two elements chime in a strange harmony
Observer
Blurring the borders past and present, sex and religion, desire and shame, Lauren Aimee Curtis's debut novel Dolores is a short and potent story of a young woman in trouble
Irish Times
This skilfully written and disquieting novella takes a character from contemporary life, gives her a classic female problem, and places her in an almost timeless setting, and the result is a hypnotic and powerfully affecting read
Sydney Morning Herald, 'Pick of the Week
Dolores is a taut and moody novella ... In burnished prose, Curtis raises potent questions about how women control their bodies and destinies when subject to institutional forces.