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100 1  Polek, Nicolette|4aut 
245 10 Bitter water opera /|cNicolette Polek 
264  1 Minneapolis, Minnesota :|bGraywolf Press,|c[2024] 
300    122 sidor|c20 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    In 1967, the dancer Marta Becket and her husband were 
       traveling through Death Valley Junction when they came 
       across an abandoned theater. Marta decided it was hers. 
       She painted her ideal audience on its walls and danced her
       own dances until her death five decades later. In the 
       present day, Gia has ended a relationship and taken a 
       leave from her job in film studies at a university. She is
       sleeping fifteen hours a night and ignoring calls from her
       mother. In a library archive, she comes across a photo of 
       Marta Becket and decides to write her a letter. Soon Marta
       magically appears in her home. Gia hopes Marta Becket will
       guide her out of her despair. But is Marta―the example of
       her single-minded, solitary life―enough? Through precise,
       vivid vignettes, Bitter Water Opera follows Gia as she 
       resists the urge to escape into herself and struggles to 
       form a lasting connection to the world. Her search has her
       reckoning with a set of terrifying charcoal drawings on 
       her garage walls, a corpse in the middle of a pond, a 
       crooked pear sapling, and other mysterious entities before
       bringing her to Marta’s theater, the Amargosa Opera House.
       There in the desert, Gia finds one answer 
650  7 Fantasi|2sao 
650  7 Kvinnliga professorer|2sao 
650  7 Övergivna byggnader|2sao 
650  7 Konstnärligt skapande|2sao 
650  7 Separation (psykologi)|2sao 
655  7 Romaner|2saogf