The Uses of Enchantment - Julavits, Heidi
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One Autumn day in 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her Massachusetts prep school. A few weeks later she reappears unharmed and with little memory of what happened to her--or at least little that she is willing to share. Was Mary abducted, or did she fake her disappearance? This question haunts Mary's family, her psychologist, even Mary herself. Weaving together three narratives, The Uses of Enchantment conjures a spell in which the hallucinatory power of a young woman s sexuality, and her desire to wield it, has devastating consequences for all involved.

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Produktbeschreibung
One Autumn day in 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her Massachusetts prep school. A few weeks later she reappears unharmed and with little memory of what happened to her--or at least little that she is willing to share. Was Mary abducted, or did she fake her disappearance? This question haunts Mary's family, her psychologist, even Mary herself. Weaving together three narratives, The Uses of Enchantment conjures a spell in which the hallucinatory power of a young woman s sexuality, and her desire to wield it, has devastating consequences for all involved.
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Heidi Julavits
Rezensionen
A novel of ideas that moves with the speed and inevitability of a freight train. . . . Entertaining, devastating and as slippery as a strand of its anti-heroine s lank hair.
Los Angeles Times Book Review

The quest to excavate the intact truth from layers of mythology, ideology, and memory is what yokes the reader to every word of Heidi Julavits's new novel. . . . A riveting, at times deeply funny, disturbing book. The Boston Globe

Beautifully wrought. . . . Assertively smart, trickily constructed. The New York Times

An ingenious, seriocomic study of the female imagination s power to alter and contort the lives it touches. The Miami Herald