Thieves: A Novel
Descripción
"Sly, witty, and utterly compelling, Valerie Werder's Thieves illuminates how we create and examine our selves in thrall to late capitalism--and how we're all thieves of one kind or another. This novel gives immense pleasure..."
--CLAIRE MESSUD
Valerie Werder's debut novel, Thieves, is an autofictional account of the strivings and humiliations of a gallery girl, also named Valerie. The tale of Valerie's maturation, her life and adventures in sex and crime, exquisitely eviscerates the industries of desire and consumption which produce, place a value on, and limit her creativity, freedoms, and responsibilities.
As the novel begins, Valerie is an art worker in New York CIty, a product of an American childhood in a small place where she learned to cherish objects and their promise. The magic of being, thinking, speaking, and writing is all bound up for Valerie, a self-aware creature and expert weaver of language in "the sales game." Valerie generates scaffolds of empty sales copy and lives in a storm of things, many of which are commodities--including herself. All the while, she becomes increasingly aware of the ways she can acquire and be acquired.
Watch as Valerie falls for the dashing and irresistible master shoplifter, Ted. Follow along as she begins to uncover Ted's shady past and secret lives. Along the way, you will, with Valerie, encounter: bleeding meats suavely tucked into Ted's loose jeans, the strangely seductive language of the highly personalized and persistent emails sent to Valerie from her local bank branch, and Valerie's vivid dreams, including one in which the minds of the women of New York City are uploaded into identical metallic cyborg bodies.
In whip-smart, sharply humorous prose, Thieves is a wild, dark, and rollicking ride through a beguiling and dangerous Willy Wonka factory of gender, capitalism, sex, and art.
Selected for The Fence Modern Prize in Prose
Read an interview about the novel with Valerie Werder with Fence Editorial Co-Director Jason Zuzga.
Sample Valerie Werder's art writing:
--Remainders by Valerie Werder
--Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor's De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Valerie Werder
--Aria Dean: There, There; There's No "There" There by Valerie Werder
--Virgil Abloh "Figures of Speech ICA/BOSTON" by Valerie WerderDetalles
Formato | Tapa suave |
Número de Páginas | 256 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | Fence Books |
Fecha de Publicación | 2023-08-08 |
Dimensiones | 8.05" x 5.25" x 0.65" pulgadas |
Serie | Fence Modern Prize in Prose |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | No |
Temas | Femenino |
Acerca del Autor
Werder, Valerie
Valerie Werder is a fiction writer, artist, and scholar living in Cambridge, MA. Her work has been published in BOMB and performed at Participant Inc, New York, and Artspace, New Haven. She is currently a PhD student in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. Thieves is her first book.Garantía & Otros
Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
Peso: | 0.322 kg |
SKU: | 9781944380212 |
Publicado en Unimart.com: | 04/11/23 |
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