{"product_id":"victorine-isbn-9781590172704","title":"Victorine","description":"Victorine  is thirteen, and she can’t get the unwanted surprise of her newly  sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her  mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere,  for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine’s older  brother Costello is struggling to hold his own against the overbearing,  mean-spirited, utterly ghastly Hector L’Hommedieu, a paterfamilias who  collects and discards mistresses with scheming abandon even as Allison,  his wife, drifts through life in a narcotic daze. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Maude Hutchins’s \u003ci\u003eVictorine\u003c\/i\u003e?  It’s a sly, shocking, one-of-a-kind novel that explores sex and society  with wayward and unabashedly weird inspiration, a drive-by snapshot of  the great abject American family in its suburban haunts by a literary  maverick whose work looks forward to—and sometimes outstrips—David  Lynch’s \u003ci\u003eBlue Velvet \u003c\/i\u003eand the contemporary paintings of Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin.\u003cp\u003e\"If a Colette were possible in this country, that is presumably what Maude Hutchins  would like to be. The sensuous is her window on the world; sexuality is the sea for  all her voyages...\" -\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Maude Hutchins writes like a lascivious I.  Compton-Burnett.\" \u003ci\u003e—Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The novels of Hutchins [are] witty and intelligent.\" -\u003ci\u003eStudies  in the 20th Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVictorine\u003c\/i\u003e..established her reputation as a richly ironical  imagist.\" \u003ci\u003e-Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Maude Hutchins has a forcefully genuine talent...Like Iris Murdoch,  she is among the most imaginatively creative women writing in English.\" -Terry Southern,  \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaude Hutchins has written a number of books and they are all very good.\u003cbr\u003e— Anaïs Nin \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaude Phelps McVeigh Hutchins \u003c\/b\u003e(1899—1991) was born in Long Island, New York. She received a B.F.A from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1926. In 1921 she married Robert Maynard Hutchins, the youngest president of the University of Chicago, and had three children. She was the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Dove\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove Is Pie\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Honey on the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Diary of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-wrote and illustrated \u003ci\u003eDiagrammatics\u003c\/i\u003e with Mortimer Adler. After she divorced Robert in 1948, Maude moved to Southport, Connecticut. She died on March 28, 1991, in Fairfield, Connecticut.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerry Castle, \u003c\/b\u003eessayist and scholar, teaches at Stanford University and is the author of several books of literary criticism. She recently edited\u003ci\u003e The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. \u003c\/i\u003eHer essays appear regularly in the\u003ci\u003e Atlantic,\u003c\/i\u003e the\u003ci\u003e New Republic,\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300958195941,"sku":"NP9781590172704","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590172704.jpg?v=1767743436","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/victorine-isbn-9781590172704","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}