The Faculty of Dreams

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019

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Pub Date Mar 21 2019 | Archive Date Mar 27 2019
Quercus Books | MacLehose Press

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Description

"One of the most genuinely insubordinate books I have read, and one of the most beautiful . . . this book earns its laurels" Katy Waldman, New Yorker

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019

In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.

In The Faculty of Dreams, Sara Stridsberg revisits the hotel room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood, and the mental hospitals where she was interned.

Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, Stridsberg reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, articulating the thoughts and fears that she struggled to express in life and giving a powerful, heartbreaking voice to the writer of the infamous SCUM Manifesto.

"One of the most genuinely insubordinate books I have read, and one of the most beautiful . . . this book earns its laurels" Katy Waldman, New Yorker

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize...


Advance Praise

'The thrilling spectacle, the muscles and bone, of a vibrant, living text ... This novel of rare strength unleashes an irresistible seduction' - Le Monde

'Stridsberg excels in mixing documented facts with a liberated fiction in a feverish, vibrant prose' - Nordic Council Award

'Impressive and bewitching, The Faculty of Dreams is unquestionably one of the revelations of the publishing season' - Le Magazine litte´raire

'The thrilling spectacle, the muscles and bone, of a vibrant, living text ... This novel of rare strength unleashes an irresistible seduction' - Le Monde

'Stridsberg excels in mixing documented facts...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9780857054722
PRICE £13.99 (GBP)
PAGES 352

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