Wait, blink : a perfect picture of inner life / Gunnhild Øyehaug ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Norwegian Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2018]Edition: First American editionDescription: 277 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374285890
- 0374285896
- Vente, blinke. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Øyehaug, Gunnhild | Available | 33111009206182 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Expansive, intimate, and filled to the brim with delight, Gunnhild Oyehaug's first novel is devoted to the unexpected connections between lonesome individuals, mundane rituals, jellyfish, death, oversized men's shirts, and a thousand other things too astonishing to spoil in this sentence. I truly loved this wide-eyed, all-embracing wonder of a book." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Sigrid is a young literature student trying to find her voice as a writer when she falls in love with an older, established author, whose lifestyle soon overwhelms her values and once-clear vision. Trine has reluctantly become a mother and struggles to create as a performance artist. The aspiring movie director Linnea scouts locations in Copenhagen for a film she will never make. As these characters' stories collide and intersect, they find that dealing with the pressures of their lives also means coming to grips with a world both frightening and joyously ridiculous.
Wait, Blink combines wild associations, quotations, coincidences, and other peculiar details into a unique tale that is both humorous and profound. Full of the playfulness that drew acclaim for her story collection Knots , Gunnhild Ã~yehaug's Wait, Blink --her first novel to be translated into English--is a jolt of desire and fantasy, romance and regret: a fable about what it means to own up to the weirdness inside us all.
[A] novel of interwoven stories following a group of artistic women pursuing their ambitions despite endless distractions and disappointments.
"Originally published in Norwegian in 2008 by Kolon Forlag, Norway, as Vente, blinke" -- T.p. Verso.