Wetlands

Charlotte Roche

ISBN 10: 0802118925 / ISBN 13: 9780802118929

Published by Grove Press April 2009, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wetlands
• Publisher: Grove Press April 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802118925
• ISBN 13: 9780802118929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: USED Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • LITERATURE Fiction HC

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Synopsis

Wetlands—an international sensation with more than a million copies sold worldwide—has been at the center of a heated debate about feminism and sexuality since its publication last spring. Charlotte Roche’s controversial debut novel is the story of Helen Memel, an outspoken, sexually precocious eighteen-year-old lying in a hospital bed as she recovers from an operation. To distract herself, she ruminates on her past sexual and physical adventures in increasingly uncomfortable detail. The result is a funny, shocking, and fearlessly intimate manifesto on sex, hygiene, and the compulsion to obliterate the covenant that keeps girls clean, quiet, and nice.

About the Author

Charlotte Roche, born in High Wycombe but raised in Germany, has been a recognizable face in her adopted home country since she started working as a presenter on Viva, the German equivalent of MTV, in the mid-1990s. She went on to write and present programs and late-night talk shows for Arte and ZDF, and won the highly respected Grimme Prize for television in 2004.