Toad Paperback / softback
by Katherine Dunn
Paperback / softback
Description
Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors.
Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning supplies once a month.
She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her own body, and her wayward early twenties, when she was a fish out of water among a group of eccentric, privileged young people at a liberal arts college.
There was Sam, an unabashed collector of other people’s stories; Carlotta, a troubled free spirit; and Rennel, a self-obsessed philosophy student.
Self-deprecating and sardonic, Sally recounts their misadventures, up to the tragedy that tore them apart. Colourful, crass, and profound, Toad is Katherine Dunn’s ode to her time as a student at Reed College in the late 1960s.
It is filled with the same mordant observations about the darkest aspects of human nature that made Geek Love a cult classic and Dunn a misfit hero.
Daring and bizarre, Toad demonstrates her genius for black humour and her ecstatic celebration of the grotesque.
Fifty-some years after it was written, Toad is a timely story about the ravages of womanhood and a powerful addition to the canon of feminist fiction.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:St Martin's Press
- Publication Date:11/12/2023
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- ISBN:9781250872296
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:St Martin's Press
- Publication Date:11/12/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781250872296
