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1 online resource (1 audio file (180 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Lauren Ezzo. |
| Summary |
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society, and a maid, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labor-social and erotic-but she is now, however passively, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? Reminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector, and Jean Genet, Amina Cain's Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. It is a novel about seeing, class, desire, anxiety, pleasure, friendship, and the battle to find one's true calling. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Women -- Fiction.
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Women cleaning personnel -- Fiction.
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Museums -- Fiction.
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Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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Culture conflict -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Ezzo, Lauren, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781977368348 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1977368344 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12624109 |
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