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17 dic 2019 · Carmen Maria Machado is as much alchemist as author. In 2016’s genre-bending short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, she melted the raw materials of literary fiction and fantasy-horror and melded them into an uncannily original assemblage of feminist fairy tales. Now, with her inventive memoir, In the Dream House, Machado ...
5 nov 2019 · In the Dream House affirms that Machado is one of the most talented young writers of our day.”―Lillian Faderman. “Wrought with alarming premonition, propulsive rhythm, and a trove of folkloric archetypes, Machado’s genre-crushing memoir is a meditation on the eclipse of knowledge and intuition by the narcotic light of a destructive bond ...
Now available in paperback, Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House is a searing account of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman. Each chapter in this wildly inventive memoir is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds her story up to the light, examining it from different angles.
The house has everything you could possible want, games for the kids, pool toys, arcade, ping pong, pool table, a next level grill/BBQ area, TVs inside and out, plenty of lounge areas, and so much more. If you need anything, the caretakers of the house would respond quickly and get you whatever you could possibly dream of.
My debut memoir, In the Dream House, is available from Graywolf Press (US) and Strange Light (Canada), and Serpent's Tail (UK). ”Welcome to the House of Machado. Proceed directly into the forbidden room; enjoy the view as the floor gives way.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times. One of the best-reviewed nonfiction titles of 2019.
Historical Context of In the Dream House. Machado’s time in the Dream House coincides with Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, which signaled hope for many queer couples. Over Machado’s lifetime, laws concerning marriage equality changed dramatically in the United States. The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which limited the ...
1 dic 2020 · 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 ...
