Book animal by lisa taddeo6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The way they could overturn an empire for a girl on bended knee.’ It was not until she began interviewing her subjects that she noticed that, while the stories of men all seemed to adhere to the same pattern, women’s stories were tantalisingly oblique when a woman spoke of desiring a man, it was almost never (or never just) the man himself that she wanted. Lisa Taddeo's first novel tells a disturbing story of Joan, a convoluted character who in a first-person account reveals herself to us in a sardonic toned, cryptic memoir of a lost soul, caught in the prison of her own life. ‘I thought I’d be drawn to the stories of men. This is not an easy book to read, and once read you might question if it was worth it. From Lisa Taddeo, author of the 1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an intoxicating (Entertainment Weekly), fearless (Los Angeles Times), and explosive (People) novel about what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning (Esquire). In the prologue to her first book, Three Women (2019), a work of non-fiction exploring the structures and expressions of desire, Lisa Taddeo writes that she had not initially intended to focus on women. ![]()
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