My heavenly favorite : a novel
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Author
Contributors
Hutchison, Michele, translator.
Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2024.
Status
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Rijneveld, L.
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2024.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"First published in Dutch in 2020 as Mijn lieve gunsteling by Atlas Contact, Amsterdam. First published in 2024 by Faber & Faber Ltd, London"--Title page verso.
Description
"A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his 'Favorite'--the farmer's daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy's body. The veterinarian seems to be a tantalizing possible path out from the constrictions of her conservative rural life. Narrated after the veterinarian has been punished for his crimes, Rijneveld's audacious, profane novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose, which holds the reader fast to the page. Rijneveld refracts the contours of the Lolita story with a kind of perverse glee, taking the reader into otherwise unimaginable spaces full of pop lyrics, horror novels, the Favorite's fantasized conversations with Freud and Hitler, and her dreams of flight and destruction and transcendence. An unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms, My Heavenly Favorite establishes Rijneveld as one of the most daring and brilliant writers on the world stage"--Jacket.
Language
Translated from the Dutch.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Rijneveld, M. L., & Hutchison, M. (2024). My heavenly favorite: a novel . Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas and Michele, Hutchison. 2024. My Heavenly Favorite: A Novel. Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas and Michele, Hutchison. My Heavenly Favorite: A Novel Graywolf Press, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Rijneveld, Marieke Lucas,, and Michele Hutchison. My Heavenly Favorite: A Novel Graywolf Press, 2024.
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