Waterstones Green Girl
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Price: £10.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative, sharply etched portrait of a young woman navigating the spectrum between anomie and epiphany. First published in 2011 in a small press edition, Green Girl was named one of the best books of the year by critics including Dennis Cooper and Roxane Gay. In Bookforum, James Greer called it ambitious in a way few works of fiction are. This summer it is being republished in an all-new Harper Perennial trade paperback, significantly revised by the author, and including an extensive P.S. section including never before published outtakes, an interview with the author, and a new essay by Zambreno. Zambreno's heroine, Ruth, is a young American in London, kin to Jean Seberg gamines and contemporary celebutantes, by day spritzing perfume at the department store she calls Horrids, by night trying desperately to navigate a world colored by the unwanted gaze of others and the uncertainty of her own self-regard. Ruth, the green girl, joins the canon of young people existing in that important, frightening, and exhilarating period of drift and anxiety between youth and adulthood, and her story is told through the eyes of one of the most surprising and unforgettable narrators in recent fiction-a voice at once distanced and maternal, indulgent yet blackly funny. And the result is a piercing yet humane meditation on alienation, consumerism, the city, self-awareness, and desire, by a novelist who has been compared with Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf, and Elfriede Jelinek.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780062322838
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780062322838
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Author: Rebekah B
Rating: 5
Review: This was a very different book to what I was expecting. The writing style is wonderful, though it will take you a few pages to get used to. It is almost reminiscent of a drunk person giving a monologue about their life, and an almost childish way of repeating words and giving things nicknames, both of which helped set the theme of the story. I picked up this book after reading Roxane Gay's 'Bad Feminist', which rates 'Green Girl' highly. For the first few chapters I was feeling glad that I was not the protagonist, Ruth, but getting further into the book I realised, almost uncomfortably, the many similarities between myself and her, and that perhaps I too am a 'Green Girl'. The descriptions of sex and drugs used in the book are almost uncomfortable in that Zambreno so accurately describes the feelings and the shocking complacency of Ruth as she finds herself in often questionable situations. Descriptions of her everyday life are similar, and it's almost hard to imagine what it would be like having a conversation with Ruth, as she seems intelligent and ignorant at the same time. She accepts every situation she finds herself in. At times she seems like a mean girl, and at others a lost girl, and indeed this is the life of the modern female. We are often both at different times. We may seem friendly and intelligent on the surface, yet we may be scathing and ridiculous in our minds. Green Girl is such an accurate description of real life it's almost frightening.
Author: Cait Buckley
Rating: 3
Review: 3 star
