Teethmarks on My Tongue

Eileen Battersby

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Dalkey Archive Press
15 February 2017

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: American Literature Series

The gunning down of her mother in a Richmond street sets young Helen Stockton Defoe on a journey of self-discovery. A physical feature she had first noticed when she was nine years old has made her feel apart and she has quietly capitalized on the privilege, never mind the aura, which surrounds her. She lives in her head and fills her thoughts

and days

with science, horses and art. The more intently she begins to observe her remote, detached father, the more she learns about her place within the rarefied world she inhabits. Just when it appears she is at last becoming closer to him, it all falls apart as he coldly undermines her abiding passions, which causes her to question the identity she has created. Her rebellion leads her to Europe on a disturbing path dominated by chance and an evolving self-realization. As a result of these experiences she gains an ability to feel deeply, something from which she had always felt somehow excluded.

This most unusual coming-of-age novel with its impressive characterization, humor and vivid sense of place takes its clever, if barely street-wise and increasingly obsessive, teenaged narrator on a physical as well as psychological journey towards an astute, hard fought, and deserved, maturity.

By: Eileen Battersby
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781628971477
ISBN 10: 1628971479
Series: American Literature Series
Pages: 420
Publication Date: 15 February 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in California, Eileen Battersby is a graduate of University College Dublin. An Irish Times staff arts journalist and literary reviewer, she has won the National Arts Journalist of the Year award four times and was National Critic of the Year in 2012. Second Readings: From Beckett to Black Beauty was published in 2009. Ordinary Dogs – A Story of Two Lives was published by Faber in 2011. Teethmarks on My Tongue is her first novel.

Reviews for Teethmarks on My Tongue

This is the whole world of horses, of Americans in Europe, of love and laughter and tragedy, told with brio and complete mastery. The heroine is compelling, delightful-and unique! The passion of this novel is expressed through its expert construction -- Edmund White * Huffington Post * A remarkably accomplished work. * The Irish Times *

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Teethmarks on My Tongue

Eileen Battersby

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