The Red Word (Signed First Printing)

Henstra, Sarah

ISBN 10: 177041424X / ISBN 13: 9781770414242

Published by ECW Press, Toronto, ON, 2018

About this Item

This is an AS NEW copy, signed on the title page by Sarah Henstra. Governor Generals Literary Award winner for fiction 2018. Scarce signed and in first printing.

Seller Inventory # 001685

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Red Word (Signed First Printing)
• Publisher: ECW Press, Toronto, ON
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 177041424X
• ISBN 13: 9781770414242
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Winner of the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction

The battle of the sexes goes to college in this nervy debut adult novel by a powerful new voice

A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go The Red Word is a campus novel like no other. As her sophomore year begins, Karen enters into the back-to-school revelry ― particularly at Gamma Beta Chi. When she wakes up one morning on the lawn of Raghurst, a house of radical feminists, she gets a crash course in the state of feminist activism on campus. The frat known as GBC is notorious, she learns, nicknamed “Gang Bang Central” and a prominent contributor to a list of rapists compiled by female students. Despite continuing to party there and dating one of the brothers, Karen is equally seduced by the intellectual stimulation and indomitable spirit of the Raghurst women, who surprise her by wanting her as a housemate and recruiting her into the upper-level class of a charismatic feminist mythology scholar they all adore. As Karen finds herself caught between two increasingly polarized camps, ringleader housemate Dyann believes she has hit on the perfect way to expose and bring down the fraternity as a symbol of rape culture ― but the war between the houses will exact a terrible price.

The Red Word captures beautifully the feverish binarism of campus politics and the headlong rush of youth toward new friends, lovers, and life-altering ideas. With strains of Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot, Alison Lurie’s Truth and Consequences, and Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, Sarah Henstra’s debut adult novel arrives on the wings of furies.

About the Author

Sarah Henstra is a professor of English at Ryerson University. She is the author of the young adult novel Mad Miss Mimic. This is her first work of adult fiction. She lives in Toronto.