CHARLOTTE ROCHE - This young German writer’s WETLANDS is the latest shocker from the world of literary erotica, following the hospital saga of a young woman with a sick fascination for body waste, secretions and some of the more taboo corners of the human body. But the scabrous subject matter is certainly redeemed by a glowing sense of humour and cheekiness.
A cri de coeur against the oppression of a waxed, shaved, douched and otherwise sanitized women's world' (Nicholas Kulish,The New York Times). In the tradition ofThe Sexual Life of Catherine M.and Melissa P.'s100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed, Charlotte Roche's debut novelwhich sold more than a million copies in Germany aloneexposes the double bind of female sexuality, delivering a compulsively readable and fearlessly intimate manifesto on sex, hygiene, and the repercussions of family trauma. Helen Memel is an outspoken eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a precocious sexual confidence. From a hospital bed, where she's recovering from an operation and lamenting her parents' divorce, Helen ruminates on her past sexual and physical adventures in '
a headlong dash through every crevice and byproductboth physical and psychologicalof Helen's body and mind' (The New York Times). Punky alienated teenager, young woman reclaiming her body from the tyranny of repressive hygiene (women mustn't smell, excrete, desire), bratty smartass, lonely daughter, shock merchant, and pleasure seekerHelen is all of these things and more, and her frequent attempts to assert her maturity ultimately prove just how fragile, confused, and young she truly is
‘“Wetlands”, in the tradition of Plath's “The Bell Jar”, is a remarkable novel about mental illness that has been mistaken for feminist literature’ Alice O’Keefe, New Statesman
‘The cause of the fuss is the novel's extreme obscenity – though “obscenity” doesn't quite catch the particular, pungent flavour of the thing. “Grunginess” is nearer the mark’ Adam Lively, Sunday Times
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About Charlotte Roche
Charlotte Roche was born in 1978 in High Wycombe, but was brought up and lives in Germany. She has been a highly respected presenter on the German equivalent of MTV.
A sexual, scatological, international sensation: ';A cri de coeur against the oppression of a waxed, shaved, douched and otherwise sanitized women's world' (Nicholas Kulish,The New York Times). In the tradition ofThe Sexual Life of Catherine M.and Melissa P.'s100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed, Charlotte Roche's debut novelwhich sold more than a million copies in Germany aloneexposes the double bind of female sexuality, delivering a compulsively readable and fearlessly intimate manifesto on sex, hygiene, and the repercussions of family trauma.
Wetlands features in the following genres: Erotic Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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Wetlands was written by Charlotte Roche and published by Grove Atlantic
£11.22. Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply..
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