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Lost on Me (Paperback)
Veronica Raimo
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A bestseller and award-winner in Veronica Raimo's native Italy,
Lost on Me is an irreverent and hilariously inverted bildungsroman
from one of the most celebrated young writers working today. Born
into a family with an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own
anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions,
and a precocious genius brother at the center of their attention,
our heroine Vero languishes in boredom in her childhood home.
Peering through tiny windows while cramped in her family coven,
Vero periodically attempts to strike out but is no match for her
mother's relentless tracking methods and masterful guilt trips.
Vero's every venture outside their Rome apartment ends in her being
unceremoniously returned home. It's no wonder that she becomes a
writer - and a liar - inventing stories in a bid for her own
sanity. Spikey and clever, Vero delights in her own devious
schemes. As she guides us through her failed attempts at
emancipation, her discovery of sex and fixations with unwitting
men, and ultimately her contentious relationship with reality, she
also brings alive Rome from the 1980's through the early 2000's.
With restless intelligence and covert tenderness, Lost on Me takes
on the uncertain enterprise of becoming a woman.
The 100,000 copy Italian bestseller for fans of Rachel Cusk and
Deborah Levy 'Deliciously enjoyable' Katherine Heiny 'I adored it'
Naoise Dolan 'Hilarious' Roddy Doyle 'Thrillingly original' Monica
Ali Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an
omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father
ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious
genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an
adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre
and comical situations: she tries (and fails) to run away to Paris
at the age of fifteen; she moves into an unwitting older
boyfriend's house after they have been together for less than a
week; and she sets up a fraudulent (and wildly successful) street
clothing stall to raise funds to go to Mexico. Most of all, she
falls in love - repeatedly, dramatically, and often with the most
unlikely and inappropriate of candidates. As she continues to plot
escapades and her mother's relentless tracking methods and
guilt-tripping mastery thwart her at every turn, it is no wonder
that Vero becomes a writer - and a liar - inventing stories in a
bid for her own sanity. Narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it
is warm and affectionate, Lost on Me seductively explores the
slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity
(beginning with Vero's first artistic achievement: a painting she
steals from a school classmate and successfully claims as her own).
Deceptively simple, its tenderness offset by moments of cool
brutality, Lost on Me is a masterwork of human observation.
A tense, provocative and nuanced novel about a rape accusation in
an idyllic commune I was in my sixth month when the girl came
knocking. The girl came empty handed. On the threshold, her hair
down, her jeans tight. 'Are you the professor's wife?' the girl
asked me. 'I have to speak to you,' she said. 'The professor raped
me,' the girl said.
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