2.5
Attic
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Here is the slim, stunning debut novel from the acclaimed author of Geek Love. Attic follows a young woman named Kay who has joined a cult-like organization that sells magazine subscriptions in small towns. When Kay tries to cash a customer’s bad check, she lands in jail, and Dunn’s visceral prose gives us a vivid, stream-of-consciousness depiction of the space in which she’s held. As Kay comes to know the other inmates, alliances and rivalries are formed, memories are recounted, and lives are changed. Based on Katherine Dunn’s own formative coming-of-age experiences, Attic was critically lauded when it was first published in 1970. Now, it stands as an extraordinary, indelible work from one of our most celebrated writers.
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“All the steel is painted at the advice of some penologist with a psychology degree. A cool pink. A deceptive pink, to make us think we are remembering the hot pinks and livid reds of the outside while chilling even those memories, embalming theming's body in the deactivated fluids of the past.
This book is not like anything I've ever read before. If a defined plot is a must for you, you will hate this book. If riding along on a stream of consciousness is just good enough, then there is a lot to love. From a writing standpoint, it's incredible that Dunn was able to set the conventions of writing/structure aside to write this book.
There were chunks in this novel that totally lost me--this narrator is far from reliable and she weaves in and out of her time in prison to her childhood to her 'job' selling magazine subscriptions with no warning or set up. It was also often hard to place who the character was with who was real in the prison and who was in her mind.
The moments of lucidity drew me back in. Once you pick up the pace of Kay's consciousness, it becomes easier to follow, and there were so many quotes and lines worth underlining. Dunn plays around a lot with perspective and perception, and the hot shame that can stem just from being woman.
After reading and being a big fan of Geek Love, this novel doesn't feel as polished or put together, but I 110% do not regret reading it.”
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