Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction—to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains—as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose—the daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally crippled mother and a father who shadowboxes with death in hospital corridors—as she slips deeply and dangerously into the lair of a cocaine-fed artist in the bohemian squalor of Venice. Lithium for Medea sears us with Rose’s breathless, fierce, visceral flight—like a drug that leaves one’s perceptions forever altered.
- ISBN10 1299576982
- ISBN13 9781299576988
- Publish Date 1 January 2011 (first published 1 January 1979)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Seven Stories Press
- Language English