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Author Conn, Brian, 1976-

Title The Fixed Stars : Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (313 pages)
Contents Contents; 1. The Ropemaker's Daughter; 2. Ablution in Helical Structure; 3. The Green Door; 4. John's Day; 5. The Snow Pageant; 6. Mercury.
Summary Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn's The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic. At the novel's heart are the John's Day celebration and the interactions of a small community dealing with a mystery disease. Routinely citizens are quarantined and then reintegrated into society in rituals marked by a haunting brutality. The infected and the healthy alike are quarantined. In a culture that has retreated from urbanism into a more pastoral society, the woman who nurtures spiders and the man who spins hemp exist alongside the.
Note Print version record.
Subject Plague -- Fiction.
Social problems -- Fiction.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Plague. (OCoLC)fst01065045
Social problems. (OCoLC)fst01122778
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Other Form: Print version: Conn, Brian. Fixed Stars : Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, ©2010 9781573661539
ISBN 9781573668163 (electronic bk.)
1573668168 (electronic bk.)
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