Little Labours - Brossura

Galchen, Rivka

 
9780008225209: Little Labours
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0008225206 ISBN 13: 9780008225209
Casa editrice: Fourth Estate, 2019

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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies. ‘Beguiling … A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios … A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.’ Boston Globe One August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a puma moved into her apartment. Her arrival felt supernatural, she seemed to come from another world. And suddenly, the world seemed ludicrously, suspiciously, adverbially sodden with meaning. But Galchen didn’t want to write about the puma. She had never been interested in babies, or in mothers before. Now everything seemed directly related to them and she specifically wanted to write about other things because it might mean she was really, covertly, learning something about babies, or about being near babies. The result is Little Labours, a slanted enchanted miscellany. Galchen writes about babies in art (with wrongly shaped head) and babies in literature (rarer than dogs or abortions, often monstrous); about the effort of taking a passport photo for a baby not yet able to hold up her head and the frightening prevalence of orange as today’s chic colour for baby gifts; about Frankenstein as a sort of baby and a baby as a sort of Godzillas. In doing so she opens up an odd and tender world of wonder.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Galchen lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances.

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Editore
Fourth Estate
Data di pubblicazione
2019
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0008225206
ISBN 13 
9780008225209
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
144
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780811225588: Little Labors

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0811225585 ISBN 13:  9780811225588
Casa editrice: New Directions, 2016
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