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The Strange Case of Rachel K
The Strange Case of Rachel K | Rachel Kushner
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Three early stories of myth, regime, and harlotry by the acclaimed author of The Flamethrowers. An explorers whereabouts keeps a queen in waiting; a faith healers illegal radio broadcasts give hope to an oppressed people; a presidents offer of ice cream surprises a prostitute expecting to cooperate fully the three short fictions gathered in The Great Exception build into a vision of Cuba that is black-humored, brutal, and beautiful. Written prior to the publication of Rachel Kushners first acclaimed novel Telex From Cuba, these stories, like Roberto Bolanos Antwerp, burst forth with the genesis of her fictional universe as though fired from a cannon. From the mythical title story, to the ominous Debouchment originally published in her too short-lived journal Soft Targets to the sexy and noirish Strange Case of Rachel K, this is Kushner saddling up for a journey into the wilds of the modern novel.
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teebe
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Woo! The #SummerSantaGoesPostal package made it here unscathed! 🙀 I love it all, thank you @sisilia ! I'm especially 😍 over the cover for The Handmaid's Tale and that bookmark is gorgeous. #SummerSolsticeBookExchange ➡️(PS. This package was postmarked May 17, is this the one that mysteriously vanished in the pits of post hell?)

sisilia Wow, yes that's the one that we thought was lost in transit 😅It took ages to get there! Glad that you like the items 😊 @teebe The second package is already at destination country, said the tracker @BookishMarginalia 7y
teebe @sisilia I'm assuming they got held up by customs. The second hasn't arrived, but once it does I can send it back to you. 7y
sisilia You can keep both @teebe 😊 7y
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Lettters
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Not a perfect little book, but a joy and a gem you can read in one sitting.

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Bailedbailed

I read the first story, which was perhaps cleverly yet vaguely allegorical or something; I really had no idea what was going on. When I started the second story and found it to be equally confusing, I bailed. Not my cup of tea or maybe I am not clever enough but no thank you, I'm good. Wonderful sentences, though. I just wish I knew what it all was supposed to be about.

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LeahBergen Oh my! 8y
tpixie Oh my! 8y
tpixie @LeahBergen exactly my thoughts!! 8y
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LeahBergen 😮 8y
bookwrm526 😳 8y
tpixie Yikes! 8y
tpixie Now where ever did you find THIS book? 8y
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Lindy I enjoyed Kushner's Telex from Cuba and this looks intriguing. Saw statues of Henry the Navigator all over Portugal, so that caught my interest too. 😀 8y
shawnmooney @Lindy It's my first Kushner and H the N was new to me too! So far so good! 8y
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KellyBarden
Strange Case of Rachel K | Rachel Kushner
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"She believes that people are born every minute of their lives, and what they are in each of those minutes is what they are completely." -The Strange Case of Rachel K by #rachelkushner

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bobproehl

He understood painfully well that you couldn't recreate a moment of ignorance, a luminous bubble winking in the folds of memory. A bubble that he later saw had floated in a tide of darkness.

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I'd heard a little bit about this one, but mostly it was its size and that great cover that sold me on it.