Notice (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

ISBN: 1635902045

Author: Lewis, Heather

Condition: New

A classic queer text of trauma, written by one of the most talented novelists of her generation.The reason its never just once is the same reason moneys only a part of it. Most anyone can take or leave that, though they dont think they can. The cover story of all time, thats what money is. The excuse of excuses no one will question because they so much need to use it themselves.Published by Doubleday in 1994, Heather Lewiss chilling debut novel took place on the northeastern equestrian show-riding circuit, to which Lewis herself belonged in her teens. Expelled from boarding school, its fifteen-year-old narrator moves numbly through a world of motel rooms, heroin, dyke love, and doped horses. Kirkus Reviews found it brutal, sensual, honest, seductive a powerful debut, while the New York Times found the book grating and troublesome its difficult to imagine a more passive specimen.Almost immediately, Lewis began writing Notice, a novel that moves even further into dark territory. The teenaged narrator Nina begins turning tricks in the parking lot of the train station near the Westchester County home of her absent parents. She soon falls into a sadomasochistic relationship with a couple. Arrested, shes saved by a counselor and admitted to a psychiatric facility. But these soft forms of control turn out to be even worse. Writing in the register of an emotional fugue state, Notices helpless but all-knowing narrator is as smooth and sharp as a knife.Rejected by every publisher who read it during Lewiss life, Notice was eventually published by Serpents Tail in 2004, two years after her death. The book, long out of print, emerged as a classic queer text of trauma, written by one of the most talented novelists of her generation.