Notable American Women: A Novel
Marcus, Ben
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White illustrated wraps, 241pp. Advanced readers copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 002375
Bibliographic Details
Title: Notable American Women: A Novel
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (As Issued)
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: Advanced Readers Edition.
About this title
The strange and fantastical novel is composed primarily of the fictional Marcus's explanation of the leaders, rules, and history of the Silentists, as well as a description of his youth spent in the group's Ohio compound as a test subject and sire for a planned "emotion-free" society. Most accurately classified as science fiction (though often darkly humorous), Women maintains an unsettling balance between absurdity and horror, shifting its subject from the academic to the domestic. Yet throughout, the narrators maintain a cold distance between themselves and the events they're describing, reflecting their lack of emotion through an objective tone and placing the reader squarely in the emotional vacuum in which the fictional Marcus is raised. The effect is akin to viewing the world from behind glass, or from behind a layer of shed skin, as the fictional Marcus does when he wears the empty husk of his sister. A heart can be found in the novel, however, that is well worth discovering: beyond its detached creepiness lies an allegory deeply concerned with the dangers of conformity and the maniacal pursuit of human advancement. --Ross Doll
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