Lithium for Medea

Braverman, Kate

ISBN 10: 0060104414 / ISBN 13: 9780060104412

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1979

About this Item

5-13/16" x 8-7/16", (iv) + 251pp. Printed on alkaline paper and bound in sewn signatures in green paper-covered boards with green cloth backing and green end papers. Light edge wear to bottom of board cover. Moderate shelf wear, edge wear to jacket; there are a couple of 1/2" closed tears from the bottom edge on the front. Background green on the spine is faded to aqua, not affecting legibility of title block. Appears to be signed in felt tip pen by Kate Braverman on the front free end paper; but there is also a remainder mark on the bottom edge of the book block. Binding is square and tight. Pages are lightly age toned but clean and unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 005335

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lithium for Medea
• Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060104414
• ISBN 13: 9780060104412
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed by the Author
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction—to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains—as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose—the daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally crippled mother and a father who shadowboxes with death in hospital corridors—as she slips deeply and dangerously into the lair of a cocaine-fed artist in the bohemian squalor of Venice. Lithium for Medea sears us with Rose’s breathless, fierce, visceral flight—like a drug that leaves one’s perceptions forever altered.

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, including The Incantation of Frida K. (2002), Wonders of the West (1993), Palm Latitudes (1988), and Lithium for Medea (1979), books of poetry—Postcards from August (1990), Hurricane Warnings (1987), Lullaby for Sinners (1980), and Milkrun (1977)—and a collection of stories, Squandering the Blue (1990). She won the O. Henry Award in 1992.