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Victorine by Maude Hutchins

Victorine

By Maude Hutchins
Introduction by Terry Castle

By Maude Hutchins
Introduction by Terry Castle

By Maude Hutchins
Introduction by Terry Castle

By Maude Hutchins
Introduction by Terry Castle

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Category: Fiction

Category: Fiction

Paperback $14.95

Aug 19, 2008 | ISBN 9781590172704

Ebook $11.99

Jan 30, 2018 | ISBN 9781681372495

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    About Victorine

    Victorine is thirteen, and she can’t get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine’s older brother Costello is struggling to hold his own against the overbearing, mean-spirited, utterly ghastly Hector L’Hommedieu, a paterfamilias who collects and discards mistresses with scheming abandon even as Allison, his wife, drifts through life in a narcotic daze.

    And Maude Hutchins’s Victorine? It’s a sly, shocking, one-of-a-kind novel that explores sex and society with wayward and unabashedly weird inspiration, a drive-by snapshot of the great abject American family in its suburban haunts by a literary maverick whose work looks forward to—and sometimes outstrips—David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and the contemporary paintings of Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin.

    About Victorine

    Victorine is thirteen, and she can’t get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine’s older brother Costello is struggling to hold his own against the overbearing, mean-spirited, utterly ghastly Hector L’Hommedieu, a paterfamilias who collects and discards mistresses with scheming abandon even as Allison, his wife, drifts through life in a narcotic daze.

    And Maude Hutchins’s Victorine? It’s a sly, shocking, one-of-a-kind novel that explores sex and society with wayward and unabashedly weird inspiration, a drive-by snapshot of the great abject American family in its suburban haunts by a literary maverick whose work looks forward to—and sometimes outstrips—David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and the contemporary paintings of Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin.

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by NYRB Classics
    Aug 19, 2008 | 208 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9781590172704

    Category: Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by NYRB Classics
    Jan 30, 2018 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9781681372495

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    Praise

    “If a Colette were possible in this country, that is presumably what Maude Hutchins would like to be. The sensuous is her window on the world; sexuality is the sea for all her voyages…” –New York Times

     

    “Maude Hutchins writes like a lascivious I. Compton-Burnett.” —Time

     

    “The novels of Hutchins [are] witty and intelligent.” –Studies in the 20th Century

     

    “Victorine..established her reputation as a richly ironical imagist.” -Time

     

    “Maude Hutchins has a forcefully genuine talent…Like Iris Murdoch, she is among the most imaginatively creative women writing in English.” -Terry Southern, New York Times

    Maude Hutchins has written a number of books and they are all very good.
    — Anaïs Nin 

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