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The Faculty of Dreams: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
Sara Stridsberg
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"One of the most genuinely insubordinate books I have read, and one of the most beautiful . . . this book earns its laurels" Katy Waldman, New Yorker
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.
In The Faculty of Dreams, Sara Stridsberg revisits the hotel 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 the mental hospitals where she was interned.
Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, Stridsberg reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, articulating the thoughts and fears that she struggled to express in life and giving a powerful, heartbreaking voice to the writer of the infamous SCUM Manifesto.
Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner
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Praise for The Faculty of Dreams: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
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One of the most genuinely insubordinate books I have read, and one of the most beautiful . . . this book earns its laurels - New YorkerBrilliant, multi-layered, thrilling ... a burning love letter with icy observation at its core - Svenska DagbladetStridsberg's evocation of Valerie Solanas conjures images that are poetic and enchanting - Dagens NyheterStridsberg excels in mixing documented facts with a liberated fiction in a feverish, vibrant prose - Nordic Council AwardThe thrilling spectacle, the muscles and bone, of a vibrant, living text ... This novel of rare strength unleashes an irresistible seduction - Le MondeImpressive and bewitching, The Faculty of Dreams is unquestionably one of the revelations of the publishing season - Le Magazine litte raireAt once a hagiography, an exercise in admiration and a portrait of a marginal America, this passionate novel reveals the fate of the woman who wanted to shoot Andy Warhol - LireUrgent and poetic. ... fascinating literature - Bayerischer Rundfunk
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