Is Mother Dead

Is Mother Dead
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781804291849
ISBN-13 : 1804291846
Rating : 4/5 (846 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Is Mother Dead by : Vigdis Hjorth

Download or read book Is Mother Dead written by Vigdis Hjorth and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controverdsial modern classic, Will and Testament 'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art.The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought aboiut a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new proximity, after decades of acrimonius absence, set both women on edge, and before too long Johanna finds her mother stalking her thoughts, and Johanna starts stalking her mother's house.


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