02017cam a2200301 i 4500 437674967 TxAuBib 20200918120000.0 200110s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020000079 9781524749224 $27.95 1524749222 $27.95 DLC eng rda DLC NjBwBT IMmBT TxAuBib rda Gordon, Mary, 1949- Payback / Mary Gordon. First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, [2020] 338 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Unbeknownst to her many fans, Quin Archer, the revenge-loving queen of the reality-TV show "Payback," was once an angry teen named Heidi--and her true story may be known only to Agnes, who was her art teacher at a private New England girls' school in the 1970s. Then a young woman herself, Agnes saw a spark of originality in the brooding Heidi. But when she suggests Heidi visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the girl returns with a disastrous account of having been picked up at the museum by an older man. Agnes's stunned, victim-blaming response will haunt both women for decades. Gordon narrates this tale of #metoo misunderstanding, from a time before there was language to contain it, with a sharp sense of life's changing tempo, carrying us through Heidi's disappearance and reinvention as Quin, and Agnes's escape into career and family in Italy--until, inevitably, they meet again. A remarkable book about the precise weight of our words and deeds, from a writer whose moral vision is deeply rewarding in its subtlety"-- Provided by publisher. 20200918. Victims of crimes Fiction. Teacher-student relationships Fiction. Blaming the victim Fiction. Gordon, Mary, New York : Pantheon Books, [2017] Payback.