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Banshee
- Author
- Rachel DeWoskin
- Narrator
- Hillary Huber
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 11 June 2019
- Run Time
- 9 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In Banshee, Samantha Baxter―wife, mother, poetry professor―learns she has breast cancer and then ruins her own life.
Tumbling through a catastrophic midlife crisis, she gives herself permission to partake in behaviors she’s observed in her male colleagues, including having an affair with a student her daughter’s age, ranting at board meetings, and telling her poetry students what she really thinks of their work.
Underneath biting, witty narration lurks a childish, confused, and unrealized adult woman hell-bent on destroying her relationships and professional life, all within the span of a few weeks.
Part comedy, part tragedy, Banshee dramatizes the emotions that lie behind our inhibitions―and the consequences of unleashing them.
Critics Review
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“Banshee is the kind of book every woman I know wishes she’d written. Fierce, necessary, honest, a burn-it-all-down scorched earth policy to the toxic masculinity of this Age of Terror.”
Emily Rapp-Black, New York Times bestselling author
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“A ravishing book. Sexy and sad, dark and funny, ruthless and kind, this is Rachel DeWoskin’s ferociously feminist masterpiece.”
Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author
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“A wicked, delicious ride toward an ambivalent redemption—angry, hilarious, all too true.”
Ally Sheedy, actress and author of She Was Nice to Mice
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“Raucous, white-hot, and page-turning brilliance…A singular and vital reading experience.”
Gina Frangello, author of A Life in Men
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Details
- Author
- Rachel DeWoskin
- Narrator
- Hillary Huber
- Duration
- 9 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 June 2019
- ISBN
- 9781982695996
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Humorous fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
In Banshee, Samantha Baxter―wife, mother, poetry professor―learns she has breast cancer and then ruins her own life.Tumbling through a catastrophic midlife crisis, she gives herself permission to partake in behaviors she’s observed in her male colleagues, including having an affair with a student her daughter’s age, ranting at board meetings, and telling her poetry students what she really thinks of their work.Underneath biting, witty narration lurks a childish, confused, and unrealized adult woman hell-bent on destroying her relationships and professional life, all within the span of a few weeks.Part comedy, part tragedy, Banshee dramatizes the emotions that lie behind our inhibitions―and the consequences of unleashing them.
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