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- 9781589880122
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dry Books, Incorporated, Paul
ISBN-10
1589880129
ISBN-13
9781589880122
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4415570
Product Key Features
Book Title
Memoirs of a Midget
Number of Pages
379 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Contemporary Women, Coming of Age, Literary
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-022537
Reviews
Praise for Walter de la Mare and Memoirs of a Midget "For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry."--Rebecca West "It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind."--Angela Carter "It seems to me a perfect, utterly original novel, and no one but a poet could have written it...The book is totally idiosyncratic and yet there isn't a line you couldn't identify yourself with."--Harry Mathews "One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written."--Alison Lurie "De la Mare's masterpiece...It acts upon the reader like a ghostly visitation, at once unsettling and revelatory."--Washington Post "Here is a great book."--New York Times Book Review "Sentences, pages, whole chapters cause us to catch our breath."--Atlantic Monthly "After a long period of neglect de la Mare may be beginning to be seen as the remarkable writer that he is."--John Bayley, New York Review of Books, Praise for Walter de la Mare and Memoirs of a Midget "For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry."-- Rebecca West "It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind."-- Angela Carter "It seems to me a perfect, utterly original novel, and no one but a poet could have written it...The book is totally idiosyncratic and yet there isn't a line you couldn't identify yourself with."-- Harry Mathews "One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written."-- Alison Lurie "De la Mare's masterpiece...It acts upon the reader like a ghostly visitation, at once unsettling and revelatory."-- Washington Post "Here is a great book."-- New York Times Book Review "Sentences, pages, whole chapters cause us to catch our breath."-- Atlantic Monthly "After a long period of neglect de la Mare may be beginning to be seen as the remarkable writer that he is."-- John Bayley, New York Review of Books, Praise for Walter de la Mare and Memoirs of a Midget "For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry."--Rebecca West "It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind."--Angela Carter "It seems to me a perfect, utterly original novel, and no one but a poet could have written it...The book is totally idiosyncratic and yet there isn't a line you couldn't identify yourself with."--Harry Mathews "One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written."--Alison Lurie "De la Mare's masterpiece...It acts upon the reader like a ghostly visitation, at once unsettling and revelatory."--Washington Post "Here is a great book."--New York Times Book Review "Sentences, pages, whole chapters cause us to catch our breath."--Atlantic Monthly "After a long period of neglect de la Mare may be beginning to be seen as the remarkable writer that he is."--John Bayley, New York Review of Books
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
FIC
Synopsis
"For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry."--Rebecca West "It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind."--Angela Carter "It seems to me a perfect, utterly original novel, and no one but a poet could have written it...The book is totally idiosyncratic and yet there isn't a line you couldn't identify yourself with."--Harry Mathews Miss M., the narrator of these fictional memoirs, is a diminutive young woman (though just how diminutive, the author never says) with a "passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies, and stuffed animals." Miss M. tells of her early life as a dreamy orphan and, in particular, of her tempestuous twentieth year--in which she falls in love with a beautiful and ambitious full-sized woman and is courted by a male dwarf. Concluding that she must choose either to simply tolerate her difference or grow callous to it, Miss M. resolves to become independent by offering herself up as a spectacle in a circus. "One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written."--Alison Lurie, from her foreword "De la Mare's masterpiece...It acts upon the reader like a ghostly visitation, at once unsettling and revelatory."-- Washington Post "Here is a great book."-- New York Times Book Review "Sentences, pages, whole chapters cause us to catch our breath."-- Atlantic Monthly "After a long period of neglect de la Mare may be beginning to be seen as the remarkable writer that he is."--John Bayley, New York Review of Books Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Memoirs of a Midget . Other major works include the children's novel, The Three Royal Monkeys , Henry Brocken , and The Return . His book Desert Islands is also available from Paul Dry Books. Alison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels as well as two collections of essays on children's literature, Don't Tell the Grown-Ups and Boys and Girls Forever . She has taught children's literature and folklore at Cornell University for many years., "One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written."--from the foreword by Alison Lurie
LC Classification Number
PR6007.E3M38 2004
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