The Dream Faculty

Sara Stridsberg · 2006 CE · Novel · Nordic · Contemporary

A fictional life of Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto, from her childhood in the American South through the Tenderloin hotel where she died. Stridsberg calls it a literary fantasy rather than a biography, and it won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2007.

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