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Title Statement | The appointment: (or, the story of a Jewish cock) / Katharina Volckmer. |
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Author | Volckmer, Katharina, 1987- |
Publication | New York: Avid Reader Press,2020. |
Edition | First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. |
Extent of Item | 134 pages ; |
ISBN | 1982150173 9781982150174 |
Other Number | 3849392 |
Summary | "In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, her struggles with her sexuality and identity. Born and raised in Germany, she has been living in London for several years, determined to break free from her family origins and her haunted homeland. But the recent death of her grandfather, and an unexpected inheritance, make it clear that you cannot easily outrun your own shame, whether it be physical, familial, historical, national, or all of the above. Or can you? With Dr. Seligman's help, our narrator will find out. In a monologue that is both deliciously dark and subversively funny, she takes us on a wide-ranging journey from Hitler-centered sexual fantasies and overbearing mothers to the medicinal properties of squirrel tails and the notion that anatomical changes can serve as historical reparation."--Provided by publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Young women--Fiction |
Physician and patient--Fiction | |
Inheritance and succession--Fiction | |
Grandfathers--Fiction | |
Sexual fantasies--Fiction | |
Germans--Fiction--England | |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |