Rivka Galchen

Little Labors (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In paperback at last: Rivka Galchen's beloved baby bibleslyly hilarious, surprising, and absolutely essential reading for anyone who has ever had, held, or been a baby

In this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writersJane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Djuna Barnes, Mavis Gallantis zero, that orange is the new baby pink, that The Tale of Genji has no plot but plenty of drama about paternity, that babies exude an intoxicating black magic, and that a baby is a goldmine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811222976
• Artikelnr.: 59592261

Autorenporträt

RIVKA GALCHEN's 2008 first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, and her 2014 story collection, American Innovations, were both New York Times Best Books of the Year. She has received many awards, as well as an MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Galchen lives in New York City.