A riveting tale of addiction - to drugs, physical love, and
dysfunctional family dynamics - Kate Braverman's novel is not easily forgotten. The story is told by Rose, a woman who has spiraled downward from a string of loveless affairs and an unhappy marriage to a hallucinatory world of cocaine and cruelty that is both sensual and squalid. That Braverman is also an accomplished poet is evident in the purity of her language. Powerfully evoking the disaffected atmosphere of the 1970s, this
haunting story tells of a young woman's fierce flight from a dark life of obsession. This reissue features a new foreword by Rick Moody. "Lithium for Medea is jumpy, kinetic, and finally very powerful, a…
Few people know that 2006 is the 25th
anniversary of the first pubication of "Lithium for Medea, " Kate Braverman's glittering and riveting first novel. Setting her book in the many odd facets of the… From start to finish Kate Braverman forces the reader into a fun house, a meat grinder, turning and forcing you to experience a well oiled intensity. At times the writing is caustic, biting and…
