Zambreno Kate - Green Girl A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative sharply etched portrait of a young woman navigating the spectrum between anomie and epiphany. First published in 2011 in a small press edition Green Girl was named one of the best books of the year by critics including Dennis Cooper and Roxane Gay. In Bookforum James Greer called it "ambitious in a way few works of fiction are." This summer it is being republished in an all - new Harper Perennial trade paperback significantly revised by the author and including an extensive P. S. section including never before published outtakes an interview with the author and a new essay by Zambreno. Zambreno's heroine Ruth is a young American in London kin to Jean Seberg gamines and contemporary celebutantes by day spritzing perfume at the department store she calls Horrids by night trying desperately to navigate a world colored by the unwanted gaze of others and the uncertainty of her own self - regard. Ruth the green girl joins the canon of young people existing in that important frightening and exhilarating period of drift and anxiety between youth and adulthood and her story is told through the eyes of one of the most surprising and unforgettable narrators in recent fiction a voice at once distanced and maternal indulgent yet blackly funny. And the result is a piercing yet humane meditation on alienation consumerism the city self - awareness and desire by a novelist who has been compared with Jean Rhys Virginia Woolf and Elfriede Jelinek.
Title: Green Girl A Novel
Author(s): Zambreno Kate
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062322838
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 6/24/2014
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction