The uses of enchantment: a novel
โ Scribed by Heidi Julavits
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Anchor Books
- Year
- 2008;2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 192 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
One Autumn day in 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her Massachusetts prep school. A few weeks later she reappears unharmed and with little memory of what happened to her, or at least little that she is willing to share. Was Mary abducted, or did she fake her disappearance? This question haunts Mary's family, her psychologist, even Mary herself. Weaving together three narratives, "The Uses of Enchantment" conjures a spell in which the hallucinatory power of a young woman's sexuality, and her desire to wield it, has devastating consequences for all involved.
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