Frederic Tuten

Self Portraits: Fictions

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These mysterious, interrelated stories create a portrait of the author's life, both real and imagined, as he appears in each tale variously as hero, bystander, artist, and ghost, yielding an enchanting autobiography of the imagination.Fantasy and reality collide as the book's principal characters-two lovers-meet, part, and reunite, time and again, at different stages in life and in landscapes both familiar and exotic. Death appears as a genial waiter in a café across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; talking circus elephants console a ringmaster for his unrequited love; a young boy barters with pirates for his grandmother's soul; and as a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-07905-0
EAN: 9780393079050
Produktnummer: 7275003
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 232 S.
Masse: H22.0 cm x B16.6 cm x D2.3 cm 349 g
Gewicht: 349

Über den Autor

Frederic Tuten is the author of Tintin in the New World, The Green Hour, and Self Portraits, among other fiction. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Writing. He lives in New York City.