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Ana Simo Heartland (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Heartland
- Publication Name
- Heartland
- Title
- Heartland
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1632061503
- EAN
- 9781632061508
- ISBN
- 9781632061508
- Publisher
- Restless Books
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2018
- Release Date
- 01/03/2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Topic
- Lgbt / Lesbian, Dystopian, General, Satire
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 10.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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The uproarious story of a thwarted writer's elaborate revenge on the woman who stole her lover, blending elements of telenovela, pulp noir, and dystopian satire.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Restless Books
ISBN-10
1632061503
ISBN-13
9781632061508
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237561048
Product Key Features
Book Title
Heartland
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Lgbt / Lesbian, Dystopian, General, Satire
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq7390.S547
Reviews
"At age 11, Heartland's unnamed narrator wins a Blue Ribbon at the Elmira County Fair for writing "an inadvertently anti-Semitic fable," which condemns her to become a "[w]riting-made-me-want-to-puke" writer. While supporting her "writing curse" with menial jobs and often masquerading as someone else, she falls for Bebe, the "love of [her] loveless, licentious life." Losing Bebe to Mercy McCabe sets the spurned narrator on a mission-to-kill, luring McCabe back to Elmira, where murderous intentions go awry, hindered by frostbitten limbs, disappearances, unreliable staff, an insatiable librarian, and a return of the dead. Eschewing labels and defying expectations, Simo slyly confronts race, sexuality, multigenerational duty, immigrant dislocation, and even dirty politics while spinning a bizarrely spectacular, outlandishly disorienting (not-)love-story of lost, searching souls." --Terry Hong, Booklist, "I was attracted by the cover of this book and then saw that the author mixes telenovela, pulp noir, and dystopian satire in a novel about a writer seeking revenge in an alternate, pre-apocalyptic United States. My brain is ringing with excitement." --Jamie Canaves, BookRiot, Must-Read January New Releases, "This seems like an wholly original novel. It is set in an alternate, pre-apocalyptic United States and promises to be a genre-bending high-octane debut." --Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books, The Most Anticipated Fiction Books of 2018, "Ana Simo's debut novel Heartland is at once manic, brash and unsettling. It's also nearly impossible to categorize without running the risk of coming up short. It straddles the line between pulp noir and slapstick; it carries the can't-look-away sensibility of a telenovela. Simo, a Cuba-born playwright who co-founded the first lesbian theater in New York, takes readers on an erratic--and sometimes erotic--journey through the mind of a jealous lover. What keeps you engaged throughout is Simo's darkly funny and original voice.... Simo boldly tackles issues of race, sexuality, and immigration. It's an engrossing tale, to be sure--one with traces of surreal horror. Simo's gift lies not only in keeping the reader invested in her narrator's detailed observances and wild tangents, but in her own total fearlessness as a writer.... [A] pleasing cocktail that goes down unexpectedly smooth; it is truly unlike any novel I can think of, or imagine." --Juan Vidal, NPR Books, "This novel is singularly difficult to classify. Is it lesbian noir? Slapstick dystopia? Midwestern gothic? To say that it's all of the above is not to exhaust the list of genres Simo straddles and, maybe, invents.... What holds everything together is Simo's inventive and unapologetically irreverent voice.... Original, profane, and discomfiting." --Kirkus Reviews, " Heartland arrives in a saturated swirl of inner monologue and devoted observances. The novel's unnamed narrator grew up in Elmira, a town with distinctive characteristics and a people whose specificity seems to have been cultivated by their limitations. She suffers through severe writer's block and settles in for a long con, discarding her old life to plan a murder. Her planned victim, McCabe, committed the crime of losing Bebe, a healthily sexual woman with a gorgeous body whom the narrator once pined after. Enticed by McCabe's stability and riches, Bebe was convinced of the relationship's potential--it was nothing that the narrator could offer her. McCabe's inability to hold Bebe proves too much for the narrator to bear. She must die.... In between obsessions, the narrator relives her small town past--reminiscing people she once knew, and considering her role in society and the roles of her parents, who worked as servants to someone known simply as "the Judge."" --Hannah Hohman, Foreword Reviews, "Part telenovela, part pulp fiction, and part dystopian satire, Heartland is the debut novel from Lesbian Avengers cofounder Ana Simo about one writer's revenge on the woman who stole her lover." --Carolyn Yates, Autostraddle, 65 Queer and Feminist Books to Read in Early 201, "This is where America seems to be heading even as we speak: corruption and greed at the top leads to mass starvation at the bottom; refugees fill camps across the country until they rise up and attack the cities; and new enemies abroad are rising up with America in their sights. Against this dramatic background we have the story of a writer whose solution to writer's block is to commit murder. Only it's not as simple as that: for the writer the plan would only be a success if the chosen victim admitted her guilt and begged for execution. But the victim is wilier than the writer supposes." --Paul Kincaid, BestScienceFictionBooks.com
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2017-944633
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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