An edition of The house on R. Street: a novel (1994)

The house on R. Street

a novel

1st ed.

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An edition of The house on R. Street: a novel (1994)

The house on R. Street

a novel

1st ed.

Imagine a house standing in furious light. Such a light, in such a place - Johannesburg - inaugurates the world and enforces its inflexible terms. But within the house, deep in the drowsy precincts of its shuttered interior, adrift among the demented longings of adolescent eroticism, official images are deformed and discolored when seen through the crazed lens of desire. This is how Bill sees - inwardly - into an unclean realm lit only by the heart's blind wanting.

What Bill wants is nothing less than everything - dominion, dominion - first over her body as it emerges into its sexuality, then over the offending presences of her family, whose mere being thwarts her. Among these impediments there is none more troubling than Bill's mother, a woman of a certain power.

How Bill subdues this rival and then succeeds in translating herself into the sovereign personality in her domain - this on the model of a notorious cinematic abduction - issues into a novel of unexampled darkness.

Publish Date
Publisher
Knopf
Language
English
Pages
143

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Cover of: The house on R. Street
The house on R. Street: a novel
1994, Knopf
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The House On R Street
The House On R Street
April 26, 1994, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PR9369.3.K64 H68 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
143 p. ;
Number of pages
143

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1411855M
Internet Archive
houseonrstreet00kohl
ISBN 10
067942606X
LCCN
93020720
OCLC/WorldCat
28336414
Library Thing
1132612
Goodreads
4809341

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