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  • Indelicacy

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Indelicacy

by Amina Cain.

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  • Paperback published on 02/07/2020
  • Page count: 176 pages
  • ISBN: 9781911547587
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Quick take

Indelicacy is an exquisite gem of a novel about class, desire, friendship, art, and the battle to find one’s true calling.

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021

An elegant, haunting debut from an exciting new voice that reads like a modern classic

In an undefined era and place, a cleaning woman at a museum of art aspires to do more than simply dust the paintings around her.  She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find the way to win herself the security and time to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society and a maid, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labour — social and erotic — but she is now, however passively, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary?

About the author

Amina Memory Cain is the author of the novel Indelicacy, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and staff pick at the Paris Review, finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize.  She is also the author of two collections of short stories. Her writing has appeared in Granta and the Paris Review Daily, and other places.

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