{"product_id":"victorine-9781590172704","title":"Victorine","description":"Victorine is thirteen, and she can't get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine's older brother Costello is struggling to hold his own against the overbearing, mean-spirited, utterly ghastly Hector L'Hommedieu, a paterfamilias who collects and discards mistresses with scheming abandon even as Allison, his wife, drifts through life in a narcotic daze. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd Maude Hutchins's \u003ci\u003eVictorine\u003c\/i\u003e? It's a sly, shocking, one-of-a-kind novel that explores sex and society with wayward and unabashedly weird inspiration, a drive-by snapshot of the great abject American family in its suburban haunts by a literary maverick whose work looks forward to--and sometimes outstrips--David Lynch's \u003ci\u003eBlue Velvet \u003c\/i\u003eand the contemporary paintings of Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590172704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.04h x 5.10w x 0.48d","brand":"Maude Hutchins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51258213367989,"sku":"9781590172704","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b96d113a-b1b8-4ad4-a04e-365380844af4.jpg?v=1750814419","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/victorine-9781590172704","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}