Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction) - Tapa blanda

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Finger, Anne

 
9780803225336: Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)
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ISBN 10: 0803225334 ISBN 13: 9780803225336
Editorial: Bison, 2009

Sinopsis

 

Imagine a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo, “two female icons of disability.” Or the story of “Moby Dick, or, The Leg,” told from Ahab’s perspective. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel, surviving on food stamps and direct communications with God? Or if the dwarf pictured in a seventeenth-century painting by Velazquez should tell her story? And, finally, imagine the encounter between David and Goliath from the Philistine’s point of view.

These are the characters who people history and myth as counterpoints to the “normal.” And they are also the characters who populate Anne Finger’s remarkable short stories. Affecting but never sentimental, ironic but never cynical, these wonderfully rich and comic tales reimagine life beyond the margins of “normality.”

Anne Finger has taught creative writing at Wayne State University in Detroit and at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several books, including Bone Truth: A Novel; Basic Skills: A Short Story Collection; and the memoir Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio.

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Anne Finger has taught creative writing at Wayne State University in Detroit and at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several books, including Bone Truth: A Novel; Basic Skills: A Short Story Collection; and the memoir Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio.

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Editorial
Bison
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0803225334
ISBN 13 
9780803225336
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Número de páginas
206
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