{"product_id":"9781681372495","title":"Victorine","description":"Victorine   is thirteen, and she can’t get the unwanted surprise of her newly   sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her   mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere,   for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine’s older   brother Costello is struggling to hold his own against the overbearing,   mean-spirited, utterly ghastly Hector L’Hommedieu, a paterfamilias who   collects and discards mistresses with scheming abandon even as Allison,   his wife, drifts through life in a narcotic daze. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Maude Hutchins’s \u003ci\u003eVictorine\u003c\/i\u003e?   It’s a sly, shocking, one-of-a-kind novel that explores sex and  society  with wayward and unabashedly weird inspiration, a drive-by  snapshot of  the great abject American family in its suburban haunts by a  literary  maverick whose work looks forward to—and sometimes  outstrips—David  Lynch’s \u003ci\u003eBlue Velvet \u003c\/i\u003eand the contemporary paintings of Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149780238576,"sku":"9781681372495","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681372495_p0.jpg?v=1763693277","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681372495","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}