Boysgirls /
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Author / Creator: | Farris, Katie. |
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Imprint: | Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. : Marick Press, c2011. |
Description: | 77 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9967847 |
Summary: | Fiction. A host of characters emerge from a madwoman's dreams, populating a world as strange and magnificent as a painting by Hieronymous Bosch. A boy with one wing seeks the secret to flight. A girl with a mirror for a face, adored by all, longs to simply eat. A pregnant girl reflects on the effects of metamorphoses. The stories of BOYSGIRLS are modern myths: tales that exist within our present time but also outside it, in a place as eternal as Shangri-La or Middle Earth. An unforgettable book of Ovidian imagination, BOYSGIRLS testifies that Katie Farris is one of the most talented prose stylists of a new generation. "BOYSGIRLS is one for the classic fairy-tale shelves, joining Borges/Lispector, Calvino/Carter, Andersen/d'Aulnoy with its spectral powers. Katie Farris's spare and lyrical language levitates here--she is a haunting and new revelation"--Kate Bernheimer. |
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Item Description: | Poems. |
Physical Description: | 77 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: | 9781934851319 1934851310 1934851302 9781934851302 |