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Author:

Sigrún Pálsdóttir, 1967- author.

Title:

History. : a mess. / Sigrún Pálsdóttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

OPEN LETTER Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

158 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Learning and scholarship--Fiction.
Art historians--Fiction.
Education, Higher--Research--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Women artists--Great Britain--Fiction.
Deception--Fiction.
Universities and colleges--Graduate work--Fiction.
History--Publishing--Publishing--Fiction.
Historiography--Fiction.
Historiography--Moral and ethical aspects--Fiction.
Historians--Professional ethics--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Smith, Lytton, 1982- translator.

Summary:

"While studying a seventeenth-century diary, the protagonist of History. A Mess. uncovers information about the first documented professional female artist. This discovery promises to change her academic career, and life in general ... until she realizes that her "discovery" was nothing more than two pages stuck together. At this point there's no going back though, and she goes to great lengths to hide her mistake -- undermining her sanity in the process. A shifty, satirical novel that's funny and colorful, while also raising essential questions about truth, research, and the very nature of belief."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

1940953987
9781940953984

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1108636445

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)