Memoirs of a Midget
Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her size. She tells of her early life and her tempestuous twentieth year in which she witnesses death, infatuation, suicide and madness. An elegiac, misanthropic, sometimes perverse study of isolation, de la Mare's prize-winning classic is a dark and teasing riddle that seduces by its gentle charm and elegant prose. 'One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written.’ Alison Lurie 'A great book.’ New York Times 'For centuries to…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84659-176-1
- EAN: 9781846591761
- Produktnummer: 15140234
- Verlag: Saqi
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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