Research Catalog

Title

Wait, blink : a perfect picture of inner life / Gunnhild Øyehaug ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson.

Author

Øyehaug, Gunnhild, 1975-

Publication

• New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Dickson, Kari

Description

277 pages; 20 cm

Summary

• [A] novel of interwoven stories following a group of artistic women pursuing their ambitions despite endless distractions and disappointments.
• "Sigrid is a young literature student trying to find her own voice, but when she falls in love with an older, established author, she finds herself overwhelmed by his ideas and lifestyle. Trine, an outrageous performance artist, has recently and reluctantly become a mother, but is finding it increasingly difficult to balance the care of her child with her outsized ambitions. Linnea is an aspiring director scouting filming locations in Copenhagen, but her hopelessly smitten producer already knows that this movie will never be made. Written from a lively God's-eye view, darting in and out of these and other characters' stories at will, and painting a world that is both frightening and joyously ridiculous, Wait, Blink traces the absurd collisions and intersections of people who may never, in reality, meet. Filled with wild associations, quotations, coincidences, fantasies, and jokes, it tramples on traditional storytelling in ways that are both hilarious and profound"--

Uniform Title

Vente, blinke. English

Alternative Title

Vente, blinke.

Subject

• Women authors > Fiction
• Women artists > Fiction
• Women motion picture producers and directors > Fiction
• FICTION > Literary
• FICTION > Women
• Women artists
• Women authors
• Women motion picture producers and directors

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Novels.

Language (note)

• "Originally published in Norwegian in 2008 by Kolon Forlag, Norway, as Vente, blinke"--Title page verso.

Call Number

JFC 19-62

ISBN

• 9780374285890
• 0374285896

LCCN

• 2017047944
• 40028300518

OCLC

1004918750

Author

Øyehaug, Gunnhild, 1975- author.

Title

Wait, blink : a perfect picture of inner life / Gunnhild Øyehaug ; translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson.

Publisher

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First American edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

"Originally published in Norwegian in 2008 by Kolon Forlag, Norway, as Vente, blinke"--Title page verso.

Added Author

Dickson, Kari, translator.

Other Standard Identifier

40028300518

Research Call Number

JFC 19-62