
Nelly's Version
Will be published approx. on 21. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
218 pages
978-1-56478-313-4 (ISBN)
Description
In acclaimed author Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the pop psychological thriller, her fifth novel opens as Nelly Dean, a middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia, checks into a small-town hotel with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it - or she - came from. Distrustful of everyone from the waiter who serves her lunch to a store clerk who claims to know her from grade school, Nelly fears she is part of a conspiracy, although she is strangely indifferent to the clues that might explain her puzzling circumstances. Part dark comedy, part mystery novel, Nelly's Version offers an unsettling journey into the mind of a witty, intelligent woman stuck in a pastless present.
Reviews / Votes
"A combination of black humor with the tension of a thriller make Nelly's Version compulsive reading."--Evening StandardMore details
Series
Edition
Dalkey Archive ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-313-4 (9781564783134)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Eva Figes is the author of several novels, including The Seven Ages, Ghosts, and The Tenancy. Her nonfiction includes Patriarchal Attitudes, Little Eden: A Child at War, and Sex and Subterfuge.
Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A contributing editor for Newsweek and a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, she has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Double Take, and The Nation. She lives in Los Angeles.
Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A contributing editor for Newsweek and a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, she has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Double Take, and The Nation. She lives in Los Angeles.