Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life: A Novel
by Gunnhild Øyehaug
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1250215021
- ISBN 13
- 9781250215024
- Seller
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Poulsbo, Washington, United States
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About This Item
"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 Øyehaug'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.
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 Øyehaug'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.
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- Bookseller
- Lemolo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1772
- Title
- Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life: A Novel
- Author
- Gunnhild Øyehaug
- Format/Binding
- Appears never read, new book but top corner slight bend
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- translated by kari dickson
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1250215021
- ISBN 13
- 9781250215024
- Publisher
- picador
- Date Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 288
- Keywords
- norwegian, translated, 3 women stories, desire, romance, regret,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction Books;
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