The World and Other Places: Stories
With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living...
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With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375702365 (0375702369)
Publish date: June 20th 2000
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Anthologies,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Glbt,
Queer,
Lesbian
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