Artifact

Artifact
Arlene Heyman
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
11 Nov 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781526619426
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' Sensual and sometimes shocking . . . Heyman writes with such intimacy and precision that she frequently makes you feel like a trespasser' Daily Mail Lottie Kristin is independent from the start. Born in the middle of the century to a middle-class family in the very middle of America, Lottie is set apart by her smarts and sensuality. A girl who' d rather carry out dissections on a snowy back porch than join her family for Christmas dinner is a strange and exotic artifact in the town of Sleeping Bay. But by her early twenties, Lottie finds herself trapped in a marriage gone stale, with a daughter she adores but whose existence jeopardizes her place in the lab and her dream of becoming a scientist. How can a young woman make her way in a world determined to contain her brilliance, her will, and her longing to live? Bravely and wisely written, Artifact is an intimate and propulsive portrait of a whole woman, a celebration of her refusal to be defined by others' imaginations, and a meditation on the glorious chaos of biological life.
Praise for Scary Old Sex: Lusty, tough and life-affirming -- Elaine Showalter * Guardian * A heroine for our times * Publishers Weekly * Hits the reader in the psyche, the gut and the groin with the force of a precision-aimed slingshot . . . Shocking, mesmerising and truthful -- Rowan Pelling * Sunday Telegraph * Both funny and eye-wateringly explicit -- Joan Bakewell * Independent * Rueful and funny and observant . . . Heyman is an enlightened observer across many aspects of life . . . These men and women are busily and blissfully humanizing themselves, the kind of bliss that lifts right off the page * New York Times * A terrific story collection . . . Heyman is frank in her descriptions, but never cruel or unfeeling . . . a tender, perceptive work * Wall Street Journal * So stylish, earthy and funny -- Deborah Moggach [An] impressive collection . . . Heyman takes on the brutal intimacy of death and aging and provides new ways of seeing and experiencing these stages of life * San Francisco Chronicle * Heyman' s frank tales . . . feel paradoxically taboo on the page, all the more so for their fierce candour * New Yorker * Sensual and sometimes shocking . . . Heyman writes with such intimacy and precision that she frequently makes you feel like a trespasser -- Imogen Lycett-Green * Daily Mail * Bold, hilarious and intelligent . . . Heyman is upfront and her characters are richly internal * Irish Times * Delivers a shock of taboo desire that is lusciously sensual -- Michele Roberts * Independent * Though her characters' flaws, fears and phobias feel all too real, Heyman' s treatment of them is honest, human and kind * Daily Telegraph *
Arlene Heyman is the author of Scary Old Sex, and a recipient of Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Robert Wood Johnson fellowships. She has been published in the New American Review and other journals, won Epoch magazine' s novella contest, and has been listed twice in the honor rolls of The Best American Short Stories. Heyman is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. This is her first novel.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781526619426
Published: 11 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 288

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