ISDAL
Dickey, Susannah2023
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The debut poetry collection from novelist Susannah Dickey, on the subject of our cultural obsession with true crime. 'ISDAL' is a timely interrogation of the true crime genre. In the first of its three parts, we follow the flirty co-presenters of a podcast about the mystery of 'ISDAL Woman', whose burnt remains were discovered in Norway in 1970 and who has never been identified. At the centre of the book is a philosophical enquiry into our perennial obsession with female victims, sexiness, and death. The free verse poems in the final section both explore and - perhaps inevitably - enact the ethical ambiguities of the genre.
Main title:
ISDAL / Susannah Dickey.
Author:
Dickey, Susannah, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2023.
Collation:
115 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781035015054 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
821.92821 DIC
Language:
English
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BRN:
2620018
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