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Valerie : or the faculty of dreams : amendment to the theory of sexuality / Sara Stridsberg ; translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner.
In April 1988, Valerie Solanas--the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol--was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood and was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was shut away.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374151911
- Physical Description: xii, 352 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| Original Version Note: | Translation of: Drömfakulteten, tillägg till sexualteorin. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Swedish. |
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| Subject: | Solanas, Valerie > Fiction. Feminists > Fiction. Lesbians > Fiction. Mentally ill > Fiction. Adult child abuse victims > Fiction. San Francisco (Calif.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Swedish fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrace Public Library | STR (Text) | 35151001091602 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
In April 1988, Valerie Solanas--the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol--was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood and was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was shut away.
