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I was born in rain and I will die in rain,'' begins Kate Bravermans The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds of her body and spirit with a stark pride, transcending all limitations, wrapping her senses around the places, events, and conversations in her past. Frida K. interacts from her hospital bed with her mother, sister, Diego, and her nurse. She calls herself a ''water woman,'' navigating into unexplored dimensions of her world, leading us through the alleys of San Franciscos Chinatown, of Paris in 1939 (where she rubbed shoulders with Andr Breton), and of her neighborhood in Mexico City, Coyoacan. Her voyage is an inward one, an incantation before dying. In The Incantation of Frida K., Bravermans language dances and spins. She carves out a bold interpretation of the life of an artist to whom she is vitally connected.Kate Braverman is a native of Los Angeles. She has published three other novels, Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, and Wonders of the West; four books of poetry, Lullaby for Sinners, Milkrun, Hurricane Warnings, and Postcards from August; and a collection of stories, Squandering the Blue. She was a 1992 O. Henry Award winner for her short story, ''Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta.'' Braverman lives in San Francisco with her husband, biologist Alan Goldstein
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About the Author:
Kate Braverman is a native of Los Angeles who grew up surrounded by the counterculture of San Francisco. She has published several novels, includingThe Incantation of Frida K.(2002),Wonders of the West(1993),Palm Latitudes(1988), andLithium for Medea(1979) - four books of poetry - Postcards from August(1990),Hurricane Warnings(1987),Lullaby for Sinners(1980), andMilkrun(1977) - and a collection of stories,Squandering the Blue(1990). She won the O. Henry Award in 1992.
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Poet, short story writer and novelist Braverman (Lithium for Medea) delivers a wildly energetic, nearly hallucinatory account of Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and wife of Diego Rivera. Frida is 46 and on her deathbed, addicted to morphine, Demerol, cigarettes and alcohol, and missing one leg from an amputation. Her memory is acute, though her chronology is foggy; in ecstatic prose she recounts the salient events of her adult life. At the age of 17, she suffers a horrific trolley accident and is impaled by a metal pole, which leaves her sterile, mutilated and more or less a pariah. Diego Rivera, the famous painter of monumental public works, notices her when she brings him lunches on his scaffolding; they marry and he transforms her into an international Marxist statement, parading her around the world in childlike peasant costumes. They are a wealthy, notorious "vaudeville team": Diego, ambitious and chronically unfaithful, belittles Frida's own paintings as "less than postcards," while foulmouthed Frida, raw from pain and addiction, scorns him as having the "heart of a butcher." Braverman keeps her jagged narrative from self-destructing by adhering to specific themes: Frida's desire for a daughter, as well as her personal and professional excoriation. Braverman's portrait of the "vanished woman" including her cartoonish recreation of encounters Frida allegedly has with Trotsky and his wife may put some readers off, but her work is commendably bold and strenuously imaginative, as befits her iconic subject.
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- PublisherReadhowyouwant
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1458783219
- ISBN 13 9781458783219
- BindingPerfect Paperback
- Number of pages288
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