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The faculty of dreams

Stridsberg, Sara, 1972-2018
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In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In 'The Faculty of Dreams', Sara Stridsberg revisits the hotel room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood, where she was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was interned.
Main title:
The faculty of dreams / Sara Stridsberg ; translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner.
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2018.
Collation:
256 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Swedish.
ISBN:
9780857054722 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.738
LC class:
PT9877.29.T75
Language:
EnglishSwedish
BRN:
2216628
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