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| The American Woman in the Chinese Hat: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Carole Maso
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 201
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 1564780457
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781564780454
Publication Date: May 1994
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Some wear on cover and pages, ex-library, some stamps and stickers on book, some spine creases.
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Product Description
Carole Maso's stunning, erotic fourth novel chronicles the dark, irresistible adventures of an American writer named Catherine who has come to France to live. Set into motion by a single act of abandonmentCatherine's lover of ten years has left hershe falls deeper and deeper into an irretrievable madness. With passionate abandon and detachment Catherine pursues her own destruction. Forcing the boundaries of identity and the limits of her eroticism, she enters a series of blinding sexual encounters with a poet, a fascist, a young Arlesian woman, a fireman, and three thieves. Eerily she splits herself in two so that she is both the one who watches and the one who is watched, creator and creation, author and character, as she observes herself from afar. "And I would like to help her," the one who watches says, "but I can't." This mesmerizing drama of sex, betrayal, and dissolution is played out against the dazzling backdrop of the beautiful, indifferent Cote d'Azur in summer. Written in a dwindling lexicon with a simple, warped musicality, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat is a dark, uncompromising, seductive work of art.
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 Electricity of desire March 20, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Catherine travels to France to write and to mourn her brother. Her lover Lola tells her she's now seeing someone else (briefly), and this sends Catherine into a depression. She sleeps indiscriminately with both women and men she encounters, acting out her detachment and self-destruction. She ends with Lucien, a man who's her equal in beauty, intelligence, and solitude. Their doomed affair must inevitably end, and each must regain their life back, hopefully before they destroy each other. Maso's style is lyrical and erotic, and is rooted in Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. It's a novel of longing, of desire, of France, and of the world of writers. It also reminded me somewhat of Violette Leduc's work, where it's an honest, unflinching writing that does not shy away from personal pain. Quite electrifying.
 disappointing September 22, 2000
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
From the reviews, I thought I would love this book. After 40 pgs I found this book to be choppy and disconnected. What about all the french in there that most people would not understand. I did not care for it and did not finish reading it.
Poetic Masterpiece December 10, 1998
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A definite must for any fan of lyrical prose. The shifting narration is a daring change of pace from the traditional novel format. Intensely moving.
A sad mercurial gem. October 9, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The setting is the south of France and the impending trajectory of desire and sadness is a record of the protagonist's breakdown. Written in a sparse lyrical narrative, this surrealistic novel of betrayal is also a search for meaning in a world where that possibility seems almost futile.
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