Description: Ex-library first HC edition of Elaine Kraf's 1977 feminist masterpiece, FIND HIM! Very rare. The subject of a 2022 New Yorker profile, the books have been almost impossible to find. From the New Yorker piece, by Hannah Williams: The Fiction Collective, which was run by a group of experimental writer-editors—including Ronald Sukenick, Jonathan Baumbach, B. H. Friedman, and Peter Spielberg—put out her third book, “Find Him!” Its narrator is an unnamed, childlike woman, who one day awakes dressed as a schoolgirl, unable to eat, speak, or clean herself without aid. Her caregiver is a man named Oliver, who alternately presents as her father, lover, captor, abuser, and teacher. Oliver, we learn, had a wife, Edith, who has vanished; it is strongly suggested that Edith is our narrator before she had a lobotomy. The text weaves together dreams, fantasies, and nightmares, and is broken up by musical notations and drawings. An unsettling meditation on patriarchal violence and the construction of femininity, the novel feels indebted to both Tillie Olsen and Anaïs Nin, two of Kraf’s favorite authors, and deserves to be rediscovered as a significant work of feminist literature.
Price: 79.5 USD
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
Publisher: Fiction Collective
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1977
Language: English
Illustrator: None
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Ex-Library
Author: Elaine Kraf
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Topic: Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Character Family: None
