Victorine by Maude Hutchins

Victorine by Maude Hutchins

Victorine is thirteen, and she can't get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine's older brother Costello is struggling to hold his own against the overbearing, mean-spirited, utterly ghastly Hector L'Hommedieu, a paterfamilias who collects and discards mistresses with scheming abandon even as Allison, his wife, drifts through life in a narcotic daze.

And Maude Hutchins's Victorine? It's a sly, shocking, one-of-a-kind novel that explores sex and society with wayward and unabashedly weird inspiration, a drive-by snapshot of the great abject American family in its suburban haunts by a literary maverick whose work looks forward to--and sometimes outstrips--David Lynch's Blue Velvet and the contemporary paintings of Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin.

Maude Phelps McVeigh Hutchins (1899--1991) was born in Long Island, New York. She received a B.F.A from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1926. In 1921 she married Robert Maynard Hutchins, the youngest president of the University of Chicago, and had three children. She was the author of several books, including Blood on the Dove, Love Is Pie, Honey on the Moon, and A Diary of Love, and co-wrote and illustrated Diagrammatics with Mortimer Adler. After she divorced Robert in 1948, Maude moved to Southport, Connecticut. She died on March 28, 1991, in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Terry Castle, essayist and scholar, teaches at Stanford University and is the author of several books of literary criticism. She recently edited The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. Her essays appear regularly in the Atlantic, the New Republic, and the London Review of Books.

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ISBN 13	9781925788976
ISBN 10	1925788970
Title	Victorine
Author	Maude Hutchins
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Woolf Haus Publishing
Year published	2021-05-20
Number of pages	190
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