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Dreadful young ladies and other stories

Call Number

  • FICTION BARN (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.

Physical Description

288 pages : illustration ; 22 cm

Summary

A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original, these stories demonstrate the strength and power--known and unknown--of the imagination.

Contents

  • Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch
  • Open the door and the light pours through
  • The dead boy's last poem
  • Dreadful young ladies
  • The taxidermist's other wife
  • Elegy to Gabrielle, patron saint of healers, whores, and righteous thieves
  • Notes on the untimely death of Ronia Drake
  • The insect and the astronomer: a love story
  • The unlicensed magician.

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