The book of fables
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Author
Publication
2007 - Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Wash, Washington (State)
Language
English
Word Count
87,250 words, Guess
Page Count
349 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL17565031M
- ISBN-139781556592560
- OCLC Control Number78893120
- OCLC Control Numberbookoffables0000merw
- Library of Congress Control Number2007001352
and 2 more
- LibraryThing3251846
- Goodreads204245
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3563.E75 B65 2007
Description
"Metaphors, puns, surrealist visions, converted into sharp, disturbing little narratives ... only a poet, and a good one, could have written it."--The Atlantic Monthly. W.S. Merwin's acclaimed short prose--many of which first appeared in The New Yorker--blur the distinction between fiction, poetry, essay, and memoir. Reminiscent of Kafka, Borges, and Beckett, they evoke mythical patterns and unlikely adventures and raise questions about art, reality, and meaning. As the Saturday Review remarked, they have "astonishing range and power." The Book of Fables is a collection of all the short prose from two out-of-print collections, The Miner's Pale Children and Houses and Travellers. The pieces run from a single sentence to a dozen pages and create a poetic landscape both severe and sensuous. --From publisher description.
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