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Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life: A Novel
Contributor(s): Øyehaug, Gunnhild (Author), Dickson, Kari (Translator)
ISBN: 1250215021     ISBN-13: 9781250215024
Publisher: Picador USA
OUR PRICE:   $15.30  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Women
Dewey: 839.823
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.4" W x 7.1" (0.40 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:

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 yehaug'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.


Contributor Bio(s): Dickson, Kari: - Kari Dickson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and grew up bilingual. She has a BA in Scandinavian studies and an MA in translation. Before becoming a translator, she worked in theater in London and Oslo. She currently teaches in the Scandinavian department at the University of Edinburgh.Øyehaug, Gunnhild: - Gunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her novel Wait, Blink was made into the acclaimed film Women in Oversized Men's Shirts. She has also worked as a coeditor of the literary journals Vagant and Kraftsentrum. Øyehaug lives in Bergen, where she teaches creative writing.