Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
172
Language
English
Published
May 31, 2011
Publisher
Skylight Press
ISBN-10
1908011130
ISBN-13
9781908011138
Description
Diary as Sin is the powerful and evocative story of a blind girl, Rosanna Galvez. Confined to a private Catholic home in New Mexico, she unveils her beginnings as an incest baby - and moves through the odyssey beyond - with powerful incantatory language. Through poetic and often painful recall, Rosanna weaves a diary that will spellbind the reader with its imagistic and visionary prowess. Alexander cites Beckett, Bernhard and Goytisolo as an "ancestral trilology" for the work, living up to his forebears with some aplomb.
Genres
Contemporary