| Description |
162 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
""This doll's eye view is a total delight and surveys a world awash with shadowy wit and exquisite collisions of beauty and the grotesque." -Helen Oyeyemi, author of Boy, Snow, Bird "Down to its most particular details, The Doll's Alphabet creates an individual world-a landscape I have never encountered before, which now feels like it was been waiting to be captured, and waiting to captivate, all along." -Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be "Marvellous. Grudova understands that the best writing has to pull off the hardest aesthetic trick-it has to be both memorable and fleeting." -Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies-by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in The Doll's Alphabet are by turns child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark: the marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter. Camilla Grudova lives in Toronto. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in The White Review and Granta"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Unstitching -- Mouse queen -- Gothic society -- Waxy -- Doll's alphabet -- Mermaid -- Agata's machine -- Rhinoceros -- Sad tale of the sconce -- Edward, do not pamper the dead -- Hungarian sprats -- Moth emporium -- Notes from a spider -- Reader's guide. |
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FICTION / Short Stories (single author).
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FICTION / Literary.
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FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
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Metamorphosis -- Fiction.
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Metamorphosis. (OCoLC)fst01018264
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781566894906 paperback |
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1566894905 paperback |
| Standard No. |
40027569960 |
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