Attic

Name: Attic
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Katherine Dunn
ISBN: 9781799748113

Author: Katherine Dunn

Narrator: CJ Bloom

Unabridged: 4 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 02/25/2020

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction, Psychological

Synopsis

Here is the slim, stunning debut novel from the acclaimed author of Geek Love. Attic follows a young woman named Kay who has joined a cult-like organization that sells magazine subscriptions in small towns. When Kay tries to cash a customer’s bad check, she lands in jail, and Dunn’s visceral prose gives us a vivid, stream-of-consciousness depiction of the space in which she’s held. As Kay comes to know the other inmates, alliances and rivalries are formed, memories are recounted, and lives are changed. Based on Katherine Dunn’s own formative coming-of-age experiences, Attic was critically lauded when it was first published in 1970. Now, it stands as an extraordinary, indelible work from one of our most celebrated writers.

About Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn was a novelist and boxing journalist who lived and worked in Oregon. She is the author of three novels: Attic; Truck; and Geek Love, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Bram Stoker Prize. She died in 2016.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rai

Definitely not an easy book to read. The language was difficult, stream of consciousness, and did admittedly often lose me or leave me behind. But that didn't mean it wasn't still beautiful. Like an abstract work of art, you still knew what was being said to you, even if the language confused you. Y......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin

This might as well have been written in a different language for all I understood it. Complete stream of consciousness for the entire duration. It was brilliant. It was grotesque. It was confusing as hell. I don’t know a single person that I could confidently say would enjoy this. I don’t even know......more

Goodreads review by Tracy

Well... this book earns a spot on the 'most fucked-up books I've ever read' list......more

Goodreads review by Courtney

All the steel is painted at the advice of some penologist with a psychology degree. A cool pink. A deceptive pink, to make us think we are remembering the hot pinks and livid reds of the outside while chilling even those memories, embalming theming's body in the deactivated fluids of the past. This......more