| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 219 pages) |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; The Curse of the Gypsy: A Deconstructed Novel in Ten Stories; Lorca's Widow; The Octogenarian with the Petrified Fetus Finds Herself in Good Health; The Curse of the Gypsy; The Bullfighter's Last Confession; Day of the Dead; The Sacrament; The Tattoo; Artemis House; Calaveras in the Closet; Shortcut to the Moon; The True and Tragic Story of Liberata Wilgefortis, Who, Having Consecrated her Virginity to the Goddess Diana To Avoid Marriage, Grew a Beard and Was Crucified; The Bizarre Birth; The Lodestone; The Mage. |
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The Strange GirlThe Cave; Return of the Midwife; The New Nurse; Dream of the Eight Sisters; The Young Crone; The Stranger; The Blood; The Summons; The Bearded Bride; The Circus; An Unearthly Croaking of Toads; Acknowledgements; Notes. |
| Summary |
Lambda Award-winning novelist Alicia Gaspar de Alba returns with a collection of ten interrelated stories--or a deconstructed novel--that follow the descendants of a gypsy woman impregnated by Federico García Lorca and a novella that retells an ancient legend about the first bearded female saint of the Catholic Church, St. Wilgefortis. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 01, 2018). |
| Subject |
Wilgefortis, Saint (Legendary character) -- Fiction.
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Wilgefortis, Saint (Legendary character) (OCoLC)fst02001745
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Women, Romani -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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Women, Romani. (OCoLC)fst01179101
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958- Curse of the gypsy. Houston : Arte Publico Press, 2018 9781558858626 (DLC) 2017061344 |
| ISBN |
9781518504938 (electronic book) |
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1518504930 (electronic book) |
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