Toad
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Crabapple, Molly author of foreword.
Published
New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
ISBN
9780374602321, 0374602328
Status
Eisenhower Public Library District - Stacks
FIC DUNN, K.
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FIC DUNN, K.
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Eisenhower Public Library District - Stacks | FIC DUNN, K. | On Shelf |
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult Fiction | FIC Dunn, Katherine | On Shelf |
Bensenville Community Public Library District - Fiction | DUNN | On Shelf |
Bloomingdale Public Library - Fiction | F DUN | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xi, 338 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780374602321, 0374602328
Notes
Description
"A previously unpublished novel of the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love. Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning supplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her own body, and her wayward early twenties, when she was a fish out of water among a group of eccentric, privileged young people at a liberal arts college. There was Sam, an unabashed collector of other people's stories; Carlotta, a troubled free spirit; and Rennel, a self-obsessed philosophy student. Self-deprecating and sardonic, Sally recounts their misadventures, up to the tragedy that tore them apart. Colorful, crass, and profound, Toad is Katherine Dunn's ode to her time as a student at Reed College in the late 1960s. It is filled with the same mordant observations about the darkest aspects of human nature that made Geek Love a cult classic and Dunn a misfit hero. Daring and bizarre, Toad demonstrates her genius for black humor and her ecstatic celebration of the grotesque. Fifty-some years after it was written, Toad is a timely story about the ravages of womanhood and a powerful addition to the canon of feminist fiction."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dunn, K., & Crabapple, M. (2022). Toad (First Edition.). MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dunn, Katherine, 1945-2016 and Molly Crabapple. 2022. Toad. MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dunn, Katherine, 1945-2016 and Molly Crabapple. Toad MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dunn, Katherine, and Molly Crabapple. Toad First Edition., MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
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