Edgy, wry, shot through with rage and despair, Topics of Conversation introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist Cataloging source DLC Popkey, Miranda Dewey number 813/.6 Index no index present LC call number PS3616. In the abstract, Topics of Conversation is about social and sexual power, anger, envy, pain, honesty, self-delusion and female identity. The novel is composed almost exclusively of conversations between women-the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves, about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage-and careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. It’s also a question that Popkey asks over and over again in her debut novel, Topics of Conversation, in which an unnamed narrator, over the span of many years, interrogates the course of her life through a series of, yes, conversations with other women, on topics like desire, need, identity, agency, power, and womanhood. Language eng Summary Miranda Popkey's first novel is about desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, guilt-written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism. Label Topics of conversation Title Topics of conversation Statement of responsibility Miranda Popkey Creator
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