Set in Motion

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The arrival of Valerie Martin's first novel brought rave reviews and sounded the themes that would inform such later major works as Mary Reilly, The Great Divorce, and Salvation: the fragility of the physical world, the gritty details of employment, and the possibilities, however slim, of transformation and liberty. Helene Thatcher, the young woman narrator of Set in Motion, works - not at the academic post to which she once aspired, but in the welfare offices of the city of New Orleans, a world of bureaucratic ...
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Overview

The arrival of Valerie Martin's first novel brought rave reviews and sounded the themes that would inform such later major works as Mary Reilly, The Great Divorce, and Salvation: the fragility of the physical world, the gritty details of employment, and the possibilities, however slim, of transformation and liberty. Helene Thatcher, the young woman narrator of Set in Motion, works - not at the academic post to which she once aspired, but in the welfare offices of the city of New Orleans, a world of bureaucratic forms, files, bad air-conditioning, and departmental regulations. The chaos and despair that rule the lives of the people Helene serves are mirrored in her own life on the trendier side of town. Her lovers are given to casual violence and drugs; a friend toys, seductively, with insanity. Detached, erotic, Helene is a young heroine who is coping, barely.

Helene Thatcher, a social worker who helps the hungry and homeless by day, is in her private life the perfect victim. Helene's need to satisfy her lovers Reed, Michael, and Richard is erotic, powerful . . . and dangerous.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780807127353
  • Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
  • Publication date: 10/28/2001
  • Series: Voices of the South Series
  • Edition description: REPRINT
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.54 (h) x 0.49 (d)

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