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(0)Kate Bernheimer
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
An imaginative, hauntingly poetic collection of contemporary fables that redefine the fairy tale for the modern woman. In Kate Bernheimer's familiar and spare-yet wondrous-world, an exotic dancer builds her own cage, a wife tends a secret basement menagerie, a fishmonger's daughter befriends a tulip bulb, and sisters explore cycles of love and violence by reenacting scenes from Star Wars. Enthralling, subtle, and poetic, this collection of eight tales...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Edward Hopper's painting "Office at Night" is open to endless interpretation. In this collaborative novella, Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt borrow from his practice of improvising on the facts" of observation to create a work of art, imagining the lives of its characters: stenographer Marge Quinn and her boss, the sometimes painter Abraham Chelikowsky.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
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Description
Once popular, an increasingly shabby library book grows lonely until a young girl rediscovers it, but when it becomes lost again both the book and the girl wonder if they will have a happy ending.