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02617aam a22004455i 4500 001 221DBD20B6A911EA9D61EC3797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200625010012 008 200618s2020 xx 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0802149235 (pbk.) : 020 $a 9780802149237 (pbk.) : 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $c NjBwBT $e rda $d SILO 100 10 $a Olafsdottir, Audur Ava 245 10 $a Miss iceland $c Audur Ava OÌlafsdoÌttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon. 264 1 $a New York : $b Black Cat, $c 2020. 300 $a 238 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces's Ulysess and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with her friend Jon, a gay man who longs to work in the theatre, but can only find dangerous, backbreaking work on fishing trawlers. Hekla's opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or her job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. The two friends feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world. And yet that world is changing: JFK is shot and hemlines are rising. In Iceland another volcano erupts and Hekla meets a poet who brings to light harsh realities about her art. Hekla realizes she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever the cost."-- 650 $a Women Authors $x Fiction 650 $a Social role $x Fiction 650 $a Friendship $x Fiction 650 $a Gay Men $x Fiction 650 $a Fishers $x Fiction 650 $a Nineteen Sixties $x Fiction 650 $a Iceland $x Fiction $x 20th century $x Fiction 650 $a ReykjaviÌK (Iceland) $x Fiction 650 $a Social problem fiction 650 $a Icelandic fiction $x Translations Into English 941 $a 11 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240515012030.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240217011925.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023640.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909062100.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20210302015356.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210203010736.0 952 $l GPPC641 $d 20201203010751.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20201002012134.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20200805012205.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200702010236.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20200625010048.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=221DBD20B6A911EA9D61EC3797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search