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Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Galchen lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances.
<p> <strong>Praise for <em>Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch</em>:</strong> </p> <p>‘Funny in parts, absurd in others … <strong>This riveting novel takes us into the labyrinthine hearts of accused and accusers alike’ </strong>Margaret Atwood</p> <p>‘<strong>Superbly voiced … funny</strong> … the absurdity, rompiness and obsession with food (usually sausages) are spot on for the era, but so too is an inescapable sense of loss’ <em>Telegraph</em></p> <p>‘A wise meditation on the kind of hysterical scapegoating we see so often in the age of the internet … I loved this book intensely when I read it this summer and have thought of it nearly every day through this strange autumn’ Lauren Groff, <em>Guardian</em></p> <p>‘<strong>Her prose, which recalls Hilary Mantel’s <em>Wolf Hall</em>, is light, pared back and subtly archaic.</strong> Moments where she nods at the contemporary obsession with witchcraft are funny rather than sincere … It’s this dry humour that makes the novel sparkle’ <em>Financial Times</em></p> <p>‘It is remarkable that Rivka Galchen’s “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch” manages to pull off … a witch story that is as serious as Miller’s play and as playful as Updike’s novel but does not fall prey to the pitfalls of either … a persuasive and very beautiful work of fiction … this writer can animate even the most familiar material, and make it beautifully, and memorably, new’ Wyatt Mason, <em>Wall Street Journal</em></p> <p>‘<strong>Delightfully funny</strong> … Galchen has written another smart book that investigates the power of narrative, both good and bad, foregrounding a woman who’d only been a footnote to a famous man’s story, all while being funny and deceptively easy to read. It’s quite a magic trick’ <em>Los Angeles Times</em></p> <p>‘The comedy that runs through [<em>Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch</em>] is a magical brew of absurdity and brutality. Galchen has a Kafkaesque sense of the way the exercise of authority inflates egos and twists logic . . . <strong>There’s real sorcery here</strong>’ <em>Washington Post</em></p>
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Galchen lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances.