The Handmaid's Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men.
King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. He has lain the barbed wire, he has anchored the buoys in the water; he has marked out a clear message: Do not enter. Or viewed from another angle: Not safe to leave. Here women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cult-like rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world.
But when their father, the only man they've ever seen, disappears, they retreat further inwards until the day three strange men wash ashore. Over the span of one blistering hot week, a pyschological cat-and-mouse game plays out. Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters are forced to reckon with the amorphous threat the strangers represent. Can they survive the men?
A haunting, riveting debut about the capacity for violence and the potency of female desire, The Water Cure both devastates and astonishes as it reflects our own world back at us.
Categories:
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Dystopian
- Science Fiction
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Author : Mackintosh, Sophie
Language : English
Published :2019-01-08
Number Of Pages : 288
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0735235341
ISBN-13 : 9780735235342
Item weight : 0.62 lb
Dimensions : 1.3 in x 5.5 in x 8.1 in
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