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(0)Rivka Galchen
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
1618, Württemberg, a German duchy. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun. Fear and suspicion are...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her and even audaciously claims to be her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo knows better. Certain that his real wife is alive and in hiding, Leo embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love. From the streets of New York to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia, Leo's quest...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
When Fred sees her mother, dressed for a party, standing in front of an enormous paper lantern, that she disappears into, Fred follows her and finds herself in the Land of Impossibility on a quest with an elephant and a mongoose.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Little Labors is a slanted, enchanted literary miscellany. Varying in length from just a sentence or paragraph to a several-page story or essay, Galchen's puzzle pieces assemble into a shining, unpredictable, mordant picture of the ordinary-extraordinary nature of babies and literature. Anecdotal or analytic, each part opens up an odd and tender world of wonder.
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