In The Dream House: Winner of The Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 - Hardcover

Críticas

Absolutely remarkable ... What makes this book truly exceptional is how Machado creates an archive where, shamefully, there is none (Roxane Gay)

Machado's genre-crushing memoir is a meditation on the eclipse of knowledge and intuition by the narcotic light of a destructive bond that feels like love. (Melissa Broder)

It's a testament to Carmen Maria Machado's abilities that a memoir as harrowing as In the Dream House can also be so energizing to read, so propulsive (Kevin Brockmeier)

Carmen Machado's memoir about being trapped in a love relationship that turns nasty and shameful is unflinchingly honest. It's also brilliant in the originality of its story-telling, its prose which is often sheer poetry, and its persuasive insights into why the sufferer keeps coming back for more. In the Dream House affirms that Machado is one of the most talented young writers of our day. (Lillian Faderman)

Machado's writing is full of repressed physical energy and the raw juice of annihilating female fury (Louise Erdrich The Millions)

Machado's use of a vivid experimental lens to show women struggling for agency is startling (New Yorker)

With Machado, everything feels razed and built anew (Star Tribune)

Carmen Maria Machado has re-imagined the memoir genre, creating a work of art both breathtakingly inventive and urgently true. In the Dream House is crucial queer testimony. I've never read a book like it (Alex Marzano-Lesnevich)

This book is devastating. Machado is a sublime, phenomenal, breathtakingly good writer and a new work by her is a momentous occasion.

(Daisy Johnson)

The way [In the Dream House] seamlessly weaves the facts of [Machado's] life with fictions-the ghosts that still haunt her, the fact that even time travel could not undo what's been done-is a masterstroke. Machado's that writer who can convincingly code-switch between sci-fi nerdery and lyrical realism. She's equally at home in both worlds. (Wired)

Reseña del editor

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.

Each chapter views the relationship through a different lens, as Machado holds events up to the light and examines them from distinct angles. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction, infusing all with her characteristic wit, playfulness and openness to enquiry. The result is a powerful book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.