Payback: A Novel - 9780593082546

Unbeknownst to her many fans, Quin Archer, the revenge-loving queen of the reality-TV show Payback," was once an angry teen named Heidi--and her true story may be known only to Agnes, who was her art teacher at a private New England girls' school in the 1970s. Then a young woman herself, Agnes saw a spark of originality in the brooding Heidi. But when she suggests Heidi visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the girl returns with a disastrous account of having been picked up at the museum by an older man. Agnes's stunned, victim-blaming response will haunt both women for decades. Gordon narrates this tale of #metoo misunderstanding, from a time before there was language to contain it, with a sharp sense of life's changing tempo, carrying us through Heidi's disappearance and reinvention as Quin, and Agnes's escape into career and family in Italy--until, inevitably, they meet again. A remarkable book about the precise weight of our words and deeds, from a writer whose moral vision is deeply rewarding in its subtlety"--

• | Author: Mary Gordon
• | Publisher: Anchor
• | Publication Date: August 24, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0593082540
• | ISBN-13: 9780593082546