The Stepdaughter by Blackwood, Caroline
The Stepdaughter by Blackwood, Caroline

The Stepdaughter

A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's "quite brilliant" (The Times) debut.A lavish Upper...
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SKU: 9781961341128
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Author: Caroline Blackwood
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Language: English
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The Stepdaughter by Blackwood, Caroline

The Stepdaughter

$27.76
The Stepdaughter by Blackwood, Caroline

The Stepdaughter

$27.76
Author: Caroline Blackwood
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's "quite brilliant" (The Times) debut.


A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous escalation.


J is a lonely woman without even the luxury of being alone. Her husband has fled to Paris with his latest flame, but he's left J not only with their own four-year-old daughter, Sally Ann, but with the sulky cake-mix addicted, thirteen-year-old Renata, a leftover from his previous marriage. The presence of a pert au pair, Monique, serves only to make J feel more isolated and self-conscious. What she'd like is someone to blame.


Writing letters in her head to imaginary friends, J delights in dwelling on the hapless Renata, who "invites a kind of cruelty." This is an invitation J fully intends to take up--and like so many stepmothers before her, she will find that wickedness, once indulged, is a difficult habit to kick. A mordant black splinter of a book, Caroline Blackwood's first novel stands as proof positive of her eternal mastery--and mockery--of the darkest depths of human feeling.



Author: Caroline Blackwood
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: 08/13/2024
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781961341128

About the Author
Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family and was famous for much of her life largely on account of her flamboyantly bohemian existence, not to mention her tumultuous marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell. Taking up writing in middle age, she soon demonstrated that hers was a mind as brilliant and ruthless as any of the men for whom she'd served as "muse," producing reportage, fiction, biography, and even a cookbook.

Heidi Julavits is the author of four critically acclaimed novels and is co-editor, with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton, of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes. She's a founding editor of The Believer magazine and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Manhattan, where she teaches at Columbia University.
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