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What is Indelicacy about?

'Cain has conjured a protagonist who purged my mind and filled my heart.'-- Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond A ghostly feminist fable about class, desire, friendship and the battle to find one's true calling. In an undefined era and place, a cleaning woman at a museum of art aspires to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the security and time to use her mind, and the liberty to be a writer. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society and a maid, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labour – social and erotic – but she is now, however passively, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps a more drastic solution is necessary? Reminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral and an exploration of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature.'A novel that will get people talking... A Room of One's Own with a few wicked twists.'-- New York Times'Indelicacy is a short book but it feels brilliantly expansive to r

Author

Amina Cain

Publisher

[S.l.]: DAUNT BOOKS

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781911547587

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction