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240 10 a| Ungfrú Ísland.l| English=| ^A1415833;

245 10 a| Miss Iceland /c| Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon.;

250 a| First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.;

264 1 a| New York :b| Black Cat,c| 2020.;

300 a| 238 pages ;c| 21 cm;

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500 a| "Miss Iceland was first published as Ungfrú Ísland by Benedikt in Iceland in 2018. First published in English in the UK by Pushkin Press in 2020"--Title page verso.;

520 a| "Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyce's Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavík with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with her friend Jon, a gay man who longs to work in the theater, but can only find dangerous, backbreaking work on fishing trawlers. Hekla's opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or her job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. The two friends feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world. And yet that world is changing: JFK is shot and hemlines are rising. In Iceland another volcano erupts and Hekla meets a poet who brings to light harsh realities about her art. Hekla realizes she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever the cost. Miss Iceland is a novel of extraordinary poise and masterful acuity from one of our most celebrated Icelandic writers"--c| Provided by publisher.;

546 a| Translated from the Icelandic.;

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Miss Iceland / Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir ; translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon.

Author/creator	Auður A. Ólafsdóttir, 1958- author.
Other author	FitzGibbon, Brian (Translator) translator.
Format	Book
Edition	First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Publication	New York : Black Cat, 2020.
Description	238 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects	Women authors--Fiction. Social role--Fiction. Friendship--Fiction. Gay men--Fiction. Fishers--Fiction. Nineteen sixties--Fiction. Iceland--Social conditions. --20th century. --Fiction. Reykjavík (Iceland)--Fiction.

Uniform title	Ungfrú Ísland. English
Abstract	"Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyce's Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavík with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with her friend Jon, a gay man who longs to work in the theater, but can only find dangerous, backbreaking work on fishing trawlers. Hekla's opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or her job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. The two friends feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world. And yet that world is changing: JFK is shot and hemlines are rising. In Iceland another volcano erupts and Hekla meets a poet who brings to light harsh realities about her art. Hekla realizes she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever the cost. Miss Iceland is a novel of extraordinary poise and masterful acuity from one of our most celebrated Icelandic writers"-- Provided by publisher.
General note	"Miss Iceland was first published as Ungfrú Ísland by Benedikt in Iceland in 2018. First published in English in the UK by Pushkin Press in 2020"--Title page verso.
Language	Translated from the Icelandic.
Genre/form	Social problem fiction.
Genre/form	Fiction.
Genre/form	Social problem fiction.
Genre/form	Icelandic fiction Translations into English.
LCCN	2020026000
ISBN	9780802149237 (trade paperback)
ISBN	0802149235
ISBN	(ebook)

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