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

Publication Info.	Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2019.
	©2019

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Location	Call No.	Status
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	F PALSDOTTIR, S.	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	158 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Language	In English ; translated from the Icelandic.
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 -- Sources -- Publishing -- Fiction.
	Historiography -- Fiction.
	Historiography -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction.
	Historians -- Professional ethics -- Fiction.
	Diaries. (OCoLC)fst00892657
	Satire. (OCoLC)fst01105668
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Novels.
	Satirical literature.
	Campus fiction.
	Psychological fiction.
Added Author	Smith, Lytton, 1982- translator.
Added Title	History. a mess.
ISBN	9781940953984 (paperback)
	1940953987 (paperback)

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