An edition of In the Dream House (2019)

In the Dream House

A Memoir

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An edition of In the Dream House (2019)

In the Dream House

A Memoir

  • 4.8 (10 ratings) ·
  • 138 Want to read
  • 13 Have read

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.

And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope―the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman―through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.

Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

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304

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Cover of: In the Dream House Lib/E
In the Dream House Lib/E: A Memoir
Mar 01, 2021, HighBridge Audio
Audio CD
Cover of: En la casa de los sueños
En la casa de los sueños
Jul 13, 2021, Editorial Anagrama
paperback
Cover of: DANS LA MAISON RÊVÉE
DANS LA MAISON RÊVÉE
Aug 19, 2021, BOURGOIS
paperback
Cover of: In the Dream House
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Mar 01, 2021, Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing
audio cd
Cover of: In the Dream House
In the Dream House: A Memoir
2020, Serpent's Tail Limited
Hardcover in English
Cover of: In the Dream House
In the Dream House: A Memoir
2020, Serpent's Tail Limited
Paperback in English
Cover of: In the Dream House
In the Dream House: A Memoir
2020, Graywolf Press
paperback in English
Cover of: In the Dream House
In the Dream House: A Memoir
2019, Graywolf Press
Electronic resource in English - First Graywolf printing
Cover of: In the Dream House
In the Dream House
2019, Graywolf Press
Hardcover in English

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PS3613

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
304

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OL29501374M
ISBN 13
9781788162258
Wikidata
Q105403027

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