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Attic

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Description

Here is the slim, stunning debut novel from the acclaimed author of Geek Love. Attic follows a young woman named Kay who has joined a cult-like organization that sells magazine subscriptions in small towns. When Kay tries to cash a customer’s bad check, she lands in jail, and Dunn’s visceral prose gives us a vivid, stream-of-consciousness depiction of the space in which she’s held. As Kay comes to know the other inmates, alliances and rivalries are formed, memories are recounted, and lives are changed. Based on Katherine Dunn’s own formative coming-of-age experiences, Attic was critically lauded when it was first published in 1970. Now, it stands as an extraordinary, indelible work from one of our most celebrated writers.

Product Details

PublisherVintage
Publish DateJuly 11, 2017
Pages144
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780525434061
Dimensions8.0 X 5.2 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds

About the Author

Katherine Dunn was a novelist and boxing journalist who lived and worked in Oregon. She is the author of three novels: Attic; Truck; and Geek Love, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Bram Stoker Prize. She died in 2016.

Reviews

“Katherine Dunn [is] a practitioner of the highest form of writing there is: literature of the imagination.” —Chicago Sun Times

“One knows the prison is real. . . . The language floods the mind.” —The New York Times

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