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Karen Elizabeth Gordon Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales
- Publication Name
- Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales
- Title
- Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781564780928
- ISBN
- 9781564780928
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 18/04/1996
- Release Year
- 1996
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 216mm
- Item Length
- 140mm
- Item Weight
- 244g
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), General
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Best known for her Gothic language handbooks (reissued recently as The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire), Karen Elizabeth Gordon here turns her extraordinary talents to fiction, and the result is as unconventional as her seductive grammar dramas.The Red Shoes consists of tatters of a half-dozen tales ("The Glass Shoe," "The Gingerbread Variations," "The Little Match Girl," "Don Juan Is a Woman," and the title story, among others) sewn together into a novel by two seamstresses. "Fabric, fabrication--such is the stuff of these lost chronicles come together here," Gordon writes in her introduction. "Swinging their hatboxes, swaying their hips, chapters with torn slips wander in on high heels and blistered feet."Looking back to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, but also casting sidelong glances at metafictional sugardaddies like Queneau, Nabokov, Cortazar, Gass, and Milorad Pavic, The Red Shoes is a Rabelaisian romp through the language of sensuality.
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Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-10
1564780929
ISBN-13
9781564780928
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1069671
Product Key Features
Book Title
Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3557.O66837i58
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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"[ The Red Shoes ] make[s] the mundane seem magical and transform[s] our earthbound language into a joy toy of infinite possibility.... The voice behind the dictionary is a wonderful creation--a nut in shining amour who comes at the world with both a resolutely girlish imagination and the lusty wisdom of the Wife of Bath. The most enjoyable aspect of The Red Shoes is its all-round lively writing." -- Washington Post, "One of the most innovative and enchanting books of recent time.... [Gordon] has constructed a novel in dictionary form in which ordinary words reveal secret worlds that cling passionately to one another in a merry, whirling, lexical dance." -- Thomas Christensen, San Francisco Chronicle, "Gordon's isn't the only postmodernist pastiche parading down the pike... but in the company of the metafictional big boys, Gordon can hold her own." -- Columbus Dispatch
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
95-025958
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Number of Pages
192 Pages
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