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Three Fallen Women [Paperback]

Amy Guth (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)


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Book Description

2007
Amy Guth's violent and shimmering debut novel is the story of three women caught in the vortex of breaking down. For Helen,a painter reawakening after a long period of self-destruction, peace is the choice between the love of her life and her new-found freedom. For Carmen, addiction will define the final throes of her broken heart. And for Frieda, the perfect housewife, catharsis is defined by sex and murder.

Three Fallen Women unapologetically weaves graphic adventure with heartbreak and sweetness to fashion a new brand of fiction. Equal parts feminist battle cry, anti-love story, and twisted metamorphosis, this is a novel that refuses conventional storytelling and lands a hard suckerpunch in the gut of the patriarchy.

Amy Güth has garnered a solid reputation in indie-lit circles as a consistently dynamic and entertaining live performer. Her readings are nothing short of performance art spectacles, including audience participation, props, and a punk rock energy that always attracts a large and enthusiastic crowd. Her debut novel brings that same energy to print.


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"If Tom Robbins and Exene Cervenka had hot, filthy sex in some dank back alley, their illegitimate lovechild might look something like Amy Güth. Her debut novel, Three Fallen Women, manages to be both touching and terrifying, sentimental and demented, ferociously dark and unapologetically hopeful. Güth strings together words like a punk rock poet, taking the reader on a literary ride that can sometimes feel like being stuffed into a body bag, beaten with lead pipes, and then thrown into a ravine - but in a good way. What's most captivating about her novel is how it refuses to be defined. Is it an urban romance for cynics? A feminist battle cry? A tale of personal metamorphosis? The building blocks of a new religion? However you categorize it, if you don't come out the other side a changed person, you're either dead inside or lacking anything resembling a soul. Anybody who thinks that the patriarchy needs a suckerpunch to the ballsack won't be disappointed by Three Fallen Women." --Eric Spitznagel, author of Fast Forward: Confessions of a Porn Screenwriter

About the Author

Amy Güth writes daily at Big Mouth Indeed Strikes Again and monthly at Eleuthromaniac, a socio-feminist column for Outcry Magazine. Her work has previously appeared in The Believer, Monkeybicycle, Four Magazine, and PerformInk Magazine.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 139 pages
  • Publisher: So New Media; 1st edition (2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0977815145
  • ISBN-13: 978-0977815142
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,511,941 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Amy Guth is digital new editor for books at the Chicago Tribune and co-host of ChicagoNow Radio on WGN 720. She founded Pilcrow Lit Fest, leads the digital media end of the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest, is author of Three Fallen Women (2006) and she co-hosts the Chicago reading series Reading Under the Influence. Guth has written for various national publications including The Believer, Monkeybicycle, Ninth Letter, Bookslut and others, and her works has been included in the anthologies "6S Vol. 2" and "What Happened To Us These Last Couple Years?" Her work was listed among StorySouth's notable fiction of 2007, and she is recipient of a Million Writers Award. Previously, Guth collaborated on several sketch comedy productions at Second City's training center and hosted/curated Chicago's Fixx Reading Series. Find her as @amyguth on Twitter.

 

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent debut novel, October 7, 2006
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ocean state baker (Providence, RI United States) - See all my reviews
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Heck, it's an excellent novel, period, not just debut -- I just put "debut" in there because I felt like the title needed another word in it.

3FW tells the story of three different women with three very different lives and approaches to the events and circumstances they encounter, but who, even in their diversity, cope with somehow similar issues in their own ways. The meticulous writing style is an excellent contrast to the deep and universal issues addressed in the book and produces wonderful imagery, conjuring with equal verisimilitude scenes of joy or despair, conventional behavior or absurdity. A great read; hopefully one of many to come from this talented writer.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Catharsis smacked my face!, October 20, 2006
This review is from: Three Fallen Women (Paperback)
This book made my head spin. It was like reading a thousand little things that had happened to me or someone I knew and they suddenly made sense. I had to go buy a bottle of cheap wine and some cigarettes to stop my head from spinning. Excellent read.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sassy, October 18, 2006
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K. Boyle "lafleen_76" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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Bold and daring. Descriptive, provocative and full of sensuality. Guth writes in a poetic fashion that is an important contrast to the harsh stories of these three woman. So New Media was smart in picking up this first time novelist. She has a very unique style in her expression and should bring the book world a crisp breath of fresh air. I look very forward to more work from this budding novelist.
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