Payback

Gordon, Mary 1949- (author.).

Summary: "Unbeknownst to her many fans, Quin Archer, the revenge-loving queen of the reality-TV show "Payback," was once an angry teen named Heidi - and her true story may be known only to Agnes, who was her art teacher at a private New England girls' school in the 1970s. Then a young woman herself, Agnes saw a spark of originality in the brooding Heidi. But when she suggests Heidi visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the girl returns with a disastrous account of having been picked up at the museum by an older man. Agnes's stunned, victim-blaming response will haunt both women for decades. Gordon narrates this tale of #metoo misunderstanding, from a time before there was language to contain it, with a sharp sense of life's changing tempo, carrying us through Heidi's disappearance and reinvention as Quin, and Agnes's escape into career and family in Italy - until, inevitably, they meet again. A remarkable book about the precise weight of our words and deeds, from a writer whose moral vision is deeply rewarding in its subtlety"--Provided by publisher.

Item details

ISBN: 9781524749224
ISBN: 1524749222
ISBN: 9781524749231
Physical Description: print
338 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020.

Contents / Notes

Language Note:

Text in English.

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Subject:

Sexual abuse victims Fiction
Reality television programs Fiction
Television personalities Fiction
Blaming the victim Fiction
Revenge Fiction
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Friendship
FICTION / Contemporary Women
Blaming the victim
Reality television programs
Revenge
Sexual abuse victims
Television personalities

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Fiction.
Bildungsromans.

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