Biography of the author: Kate Elizabeth Russell.
Kate Elizabeth Russell is originally from eastern Maine. She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas and an MFA from Indiana University. My Dark Vanessa is her first novel.
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Year: 2020
Language: English
File: PDF, 1.12 MB
Language: English
File: PDF, 1.12 MB
Synopsis:
A novel that defines the era, about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher.
Vanessa Wye was fifteen years old when she first had sex with her English teacher.
ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER
She is now thirty-two years old and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student.
Vanessa is horrified by this news because she is certain that the relationship she had with Strane was not an abuse. It was love. She's sure of it.
Forced to rethink her past, to revisit everything that has happened, Vanessa must redefine the great love story of her life - her great sexual awakening - like rape. She now faces the possibility that she is a victim, and just one of many.
Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues of our time.
Calling this book a "conversation subject" or an "important book" is a bit demeaning... It's much more than that. It's a lightning rod. A brilliantly crafted novel" - The Washington Post.Good reads
A highly anticipated New York Times book - USA Today - Entertainment Weekly - Marie Claire - Elle - Harper's Bazaar - Bustle - Newsweek - New York Post - Esquire - Real Simple - The Sunday Times - The Guardian.WikiPedia
Forced to rethink her past, to revisit everything that has happened, Vanessa must redefine the great love story of her life - her great sexual awakening - like rape. She now faces the possibility that she is a victim, and just one of many.
Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues of our time.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Russell handles a brutal originality. . . . an extremely complex, inventive and ingenious examination of evil and power." -The New York Times Book Review, publishers' choice.Calling this book a "conversation subject" or an "important book" is a bit demeaning... It's much more than that. It's a lightning rod. A brilliantly crafted novel" - The Washington Post.Good reads
A highly anticipated New York Times book - USA Today - Entertainment Weekly - Marie Claire - Elle - Harper's Bazaar - Bustle - Newsweek - New York Post - Esquire - Real Simple - The Sunday Times - The Guardian.WikiPedia
Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious but naïve teenager and her magnetic and manipulative teacher. A brilliant and devouring reading that marks the explosive beginnings of an extraordinary new writer.
2000. Brilliant, ambitious and aspiring to adulthood, Vanessa Wye, fifteen, finds herself entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her 42-year-old English teacher, magnetic and cunning.
2017. Amid the growing wave of allegations against powerful men, an account is being made. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself faced with an impossible choice: keep quiet, firmly believe that her teenage daughter has voluntarily engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past.
But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and who has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager - and who claimed to worship only her - is very different from what she always believed?
2017. Amid the growing wave of allegations against powerful men, an account is being made. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself faced with an impossible choice: keep quiet, firmly believe that her teenage daughter has voluntarily engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past.
But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and who has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager - and who claimed to worship only her - is very different from what she always believed?
PDF-My black Vanessa-PDF
Alternating between Vanessa's present and past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. This masterful portrait of a troubled adolescence and its repercussions, which raises essential questions about the arrangement, consent, complicity and victimization, is thought-provoking and impossible to put on hold. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of.
