From the cultfavorite feminist author of The Princess of 72nd Street, a classic novel about a captive woman who must use unorthodox methods to reclaim her fractured mindThe dimensions of this house have already shaped your response. Did you think you could hide forever from the violence inside you?This fever dream of a novel features a protagonist who shares the same name as its author. Elaine first enteredthe house as moral support for her friend and fellow schoolteacher, Florence, but now there are no exits in sight. All the inexplicable residents of the spaceFlorences beguiling brother, her inattentive lover, distant mother, wizard father, and even her and Elaines school principalare under the control of the mysterious Madelaine. Elaine knows that Madelaine is out to get her, she just doesnt know who is colluding with Madelaine as she forces Elaine to commit harmful, evil tasks. As Elaine attempts to regain agency, she begins to remember glimpses from her painful past with her gynecologist husband, causing her to question exactly who and what is binding her in place.The House of Madelaine revealsthe frenzied mind of a broken poet trying to put herself together again. As Elaine reckons with countless uncanny challenges all taking place under one roof, she begins to rediscover who she truly is.

Binding: Paperback;176 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 258 g; Dimensions: 131 x 203 x 12

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