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True Things About Me (2011)

by Deborah Kay Davies(Favorite Author)

2.96 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0865478546 (ISBN13: 9780865478541)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Faber & Faber

review 1: Although it is an extreme example, this book is a kind of progression of those submissive woman/dominant man stories we've been seeing so much of. It centres less on soft-focus sex, more madness and eroding boundaries of the self and horrific rape. The man is a monster without distinguishing qualities (there is, deliberately, little insight into him) and the woman spirals into degradation. Whenever there is rape in a novel I feel deeply uncomfortable, asking, why does the author want to make us complicit in this. We are complicit in everything we read, it is in the nature of writing to bring the act into your head - not an issue of morality, of course, The author knew what she was doing,but I'm not quite sure what I got out of reading it.
review 2: The sort of ... morebook I wish I could write. Utterly compelling and darkly disturbing. A more than ample glimpse into the shattering and fragmenting of an otherwise seemingly ordinary life. The narrator's "lover" is a frighteningly shadowy figure who despite barely being fully realized seeps into and permeates the entire narrative. The more solid characters, her parents and closest friend, Alison, are unable to claw her back to the reality they inhabit and both they, and the reader, can do nothing but watch as she loses all grasp of her own life and identity. Quite stunning. less

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