Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1710188 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

The incredible possibility of language.
This novel's brilliant exploration of society's mores, is encompassed in a young woman's mind. An intelligent expose into the conditions of class, sexuality, gender, religion and the penal system and those individuals who are at once priviledged and also marginalized on those very unstable conditions. A novel very significant as we enter the end of the century. And, how appropriate that its setting takes place in a prison cell. Maso is indeed one of the most important and seminal writers today.

Embarassingly self-inflated
The author is known for putting down other writers and positioning herself as the great genius. Hence a novel about a great woman genius. The idea of a teacher driven to kill her students makes sense but all the book harps on is how brilliant the protagonist/author is.