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003    DLC 
005    20191226114442.0 
008    190319s2020    nyu    e      000 1 eng   
010      2019009829 
020    9780525656289 (hardcover) 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dNjBwBT|dIMmBT|dUtOrBLW 
042    pcc 
082 00 813/.6|223 
092    |fF|aPOPKEY 
100 1  Popkey, Miranda,|eauthor. 
245 10 Topics of conversation /|cMiranda Popkey. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2020. 
300    215 pages ;|c20 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill-
       -a compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-
       loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction 
       Miranda Popkey's first novel is about desire, disgust, 
       motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, 
       guilt--written in language that sizzles with intelligence 
       and eroticism. The novel is composed almost exclusively of
       conversations between women--the stories they tell each 
       other, and the stories they tell themselves, about shame 
       and love, infidelity and self-sabotage--and careens 
       through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator 
       hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. Edgy,
       wry, shot through with rage and despair, Topics of 
       Conversation introduces an audacious and immensely gifted 
       new novelist. 
650  0 Female friendship|vFiction.