American Genius, A Comedy by Tillman, Lynne young adult

American Genius, A Comedy by Tillman, Lynne young adultAuthor: Tillman, Lynne Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 26 September 2024 by Peninsula Press Ltd in the United Kingdom. Paperback 368 pages 198 x 130 x 28 328g A former historian is spending time in a residential home but is it an artists retreat, a sanatorium, or a psychiatric hospital? In hypnotic and digressive prose, Tillman's narrator spins tales of her life while ruminating on her many and varied preoccupations: chair

estranging the familiar and showing how strange are the things we take as given

shows how their appalling treatment only unites the women further

Published on 24 October 2022 by Penned in the Margins in the United Kingdom

It was a time and place where men could be brought down by karmic forces or lured into deadly danger by ghostly apparitions

'So original and refreshing

abducted and sold into slavery across the seas

Arabic-English bilingual edition

but also the home of a behemoth transformer substation and where a little boy has drowned

ticks all the boxes and prepares for the worst

coroners' reports

but to please themselves' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'Legend is a word used too lightly for so many undeserving people

endlessly mutable