Valerie, or, The faculty of dreams : amendment to the theory of sexuality

Author

Sara Stridsberg

Call Number

• FICTION STRI (CEN)

Edition

First American edition

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Physical Description

xii, 352 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"In April 1988, Valerie Solanas--the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol--was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood and was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was shut away."--Amazon.com.

Notes

English translation originally published in 2019 by MacLehose Press, Great Britain, as The Faculty of Dreams.