Wetlands

ISBN 10 : 0007302347 ISBN 13 : 9780007302345

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd

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An international sensation—with more than 1 million copies sold in Germany, and rights snapped up in 26 countries—Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world.

Helen Memel is an outspoken, contradictory eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a precocious sexual confidence. She begins her story from a hospital bed, where she’s slowly recovering from an operation and lamenting her parents’ divorce. To distract and console herself, Helen ruminates on her past sexual and physical adventures in increasingly uncomfortable detail; what ensues is “a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical and psychological, of its narrator’s body and mind.” (The New York Times)

Fantastically sexual, Helen is constantly blurring the line between celebration, provocation, and dysfunction in her relationship with her body. Punky alienated teenager, young woman reclaiming her body from the tyranny of repressive hygiene (women mustn’t smell, excrete, desire), bratty smartass, vulnerable, lonely daughter, shock merchant and pleasure-seeker—Helen is all of these things and more, and her frequent attempts to assert her maturity ultimately prove just how fragile, confused, and young she truly is.

In the tradition of The Sexual Life of Catherine M and Melissa P.’s 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed, Charlotte Roche exposes the double bind of female sexuality, delivering a compulsively readable and fearlessly intimate manifesto on sex, hygiene, and the repercussions of family trauma.

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Wetlands is narrated by eighteen-year-old Helen Memel, an outspoken, contradictory teenager whose childlike stubbornness is paired with a premature sense of sexual confidence. She speaks from a hospital bed in the Department of Internal Medicine, where she’s recovering from an operation after accidentally cutting her hemorrhoids while shaving. The surgery leaves her bedridden and in excruciating pain. Beyond her physical discomfort, Helen is still reeling over her parents’ divorce.

But while she sees her hospitalization as the perfect way to get her parents in a room together, she continuously fails to synchronize a visitation. To distract herself, Helen boldly flirts with and intentionally tries to unnerve her male nurse, and maintains a constant flow of deeply candid narration that thrusts the reader on “a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct” (The New York Times) of Helen’s body and mind. Surrounded by surgical instruments and humming Xray machines, she reflects in ever more uncomfortable detail on the eccentric wonders of the female body.

Wetlands is a fearless, gritty and, at times, revolting slap in the face to the glossy, sanitized prescription for femininity espoused by women’s magazines.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• ISBN 10: 0007302347
• ISBN 13: 9780007302345
• Reliure: Livre broché