{"product_id":"everyday-psychokillers-a-history-for-girls","title":"Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eEveryday Psychokillers: A History for Girls\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLucy Corin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781573661126\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFiction Collective 2\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2004\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e246\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterweaving history, myth, rumor, and news, this first novel explores what it means to grow up as a girl in a culture of girl-killers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEveryday Psychokillers\u003c\/i\u003e spectacular violence is the idiom of everyday life, a lurid extravaganza in which all those around the narrator seem vicarious participants. And at its center are the interchangeable young girls, thrilling to know themselves the object of so much desire and terror. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe narrative interweaves history, myth, rumor, and news with the experiences of a young girl living in the flatness of South Florida. Like Grace Paley's narrators, she is pensive and eager, hungry for experience but restrained. Into the sphere of her regard come a Ted Bundy reject, the God Osiris, a Caribbean slave turned pirate, a circus performer living in a box, broken horses, a Seminole chief in a swamp, and a murderous babysitter. What these preposterously commonplace figures all know is that murder is identity: \"Of course what matters really is the psychokiller, what he's done, what he threatens to do. Of course to be the lucky one you have to be abducted in the first place. Without him, you wouldn't exist.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eEveryday Psychokillers\u003c\/i\u003e reaches to the edge of the psychoanalytical and jolts the reader back to daily life. The reader becomes the killer, the watcher, the person on the verge, hiding behind an everyday face.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Fiction Collective 2","offers":[{"title":"Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls | Lucy Corin | Paperback | 9781573661126 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks E 1784147","offer_id":67622997065880,"sku":"1784147","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81KK3wwPOwL.jpg?v=1790957643","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/everyday-psychokillers-a-history-for-girls","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}