The Golden State / Lydia Kiesling
- Bib ID:
- 8062640
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kiesling, Lydia, 1984-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- [Melbourne] : Text Publishing, 2019
- Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2019
- ©2018
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB eBook 1.6MB
- ISBN:
- 9781925774610
- Summary:
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Young mother Daphne flees her sedate life in San Francisco for the high desert, her toddler Honey in tow. Her Turkish husband has been unable to return to the United States - a 'click-of-the-mouse error' - and Daphne is on the verge of a breakdown. She hopes a stay in her family's unused mobile home will bring quiet, and clarity. But clarity proves elusive, as Daphne's dream of escape collides with the reality of a deeply divided world. Keenly observed, bristling with humour, The Golden State is a gorgeous debut about class, a fractured America and, above all, motherhood: its voracious worry, frequent tedium and enthralling, wondrous love. Lydia Kiesling is the editor of The Millions. Her debut novel, The Golden State, was longlisted for the Centre for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian, Slate and the New Yorker online. Kiesling lives in San Francisco with her family.
- Notes:
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- First published in the United States by MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- General.
- Print version record
- Subject:
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- Desertion and non-support -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Fiction
- Moving, Household -- California, Northern -- Fiction
- Fiction - General
- Fiction / Thrillers / Political
- Fiction / Women
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Narrative theme: Social issues
- Political / legal thriller
- California -- Fiction
- California, Northern -- Rural conditions -- Fiction
- California
- Australian
- Genre/Form:
- Domestic fiction
- Other authors/contributors:
- Text Publishing
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2018
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