Homecoming
Published on 8. February 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-85242-458-9 (ISBN)
Description
When Katey Bruscke learns that her older sister Reese has been murdered, she goes back ?home? to confront her past and break the news to her family, and friends. First thing off the bus she?s mugged at gunpoint by a guy who turns out to be someone she went to high school with. She sleeps with her younger sister?s boyfriend then, finally, identifies her sister?s bullet-ridden body in the morgue. Slowly Katey prepares to confront her parents with the news of Reese?s murder. Caren Gussoff offers a disturbing glimpse of the other side of the American Dream and a brilliant portrayal of the pain at the heart of family life.
Reviews / Votes
?A streetwise, subversive novel? Patricia Duncker ?Evokes the no-rules love between a junkie and her sister, a suffocating closeness of needles and nods. Gussoff has a good eye? Pagan Kennedy ?Gussoff has a good eye for detail... A tautly written, haunting tale of loneliness, alienation, and lost hopes and dreams? Kirkus Reviews ?Beautifully written, but powers on anguish to a disturbing extent? Time Out ?Deals insightfully and unsentimentally with the issues the Jerry Springer show frequently airs, showing how seemingly normal families nourish the impulse for self-destruction? Scotland on Sunday ?A debut of rare talent, w ith this novel standing as a daring counter-cultural shot in the arm against the impending era of George Dubya?s moral majority? Big Issue in the North ?Caren Gussoff has written a novel as bruising and as bleak as anything by Denis Johnson. Homecoming is that good? The Crack ?A difficult and unsettling vision of love and life among the disaffected? FluxMore details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85242-458-9 (9781852424589)
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Person
Caren Gussoff grew up in New York, and has an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After stints as an apple cider press operator, phone sex actress, university instructor, and social worker to support her kickboxing and tattoo habits, she now organises online support groups for the chronically ill. She lives in Seattle with her pet rat and her ex-boyfriend's ex-mistress.