{"product_id":"everyday-psychokillers-lucy-corin-9781573661126","title":"Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls","description":"\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucy Corin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573661120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573661126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e F2c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.58w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2004 pg. 5","brand":"Lucy Corin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985174561023,"sku":"9781573661126","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17a85f2f-6cf5-4aa0-a22f-bd7bf452aa23.jpg?v=1683275993","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/everyday-psychokillers-lucy-corin-9781573661126","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}