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Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

By Danielle Dutton

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Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

By Danielle Dutton

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"From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and SPRAWL comes a prose collection like no other, where different styles of writing and different spaces of experience create a collage of the depths and strangeness of contemporary life. "Luminous" (The Guardian) and "brilliantly odd" (The Irish Independent), Danielle Dutton's writing is as protean as it is beguiling. In the four eponymous sections of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, Dutton imagines new models for how literature might work in our fractured times. "Prairie" is a cycle of surreal stories set in the quickly disappearing prairieland of the American Midwest. "Dresses" offers a surprisingly moving portrait of literary fashions. "Art" turns to essay, examining how works of visual art and fiction might relate to one another, a question central to the book, while the final section, "Other," includes pieces of irregular ("other") forms, stories-as-essays or essays-as-stories that defy category and are hilarious or heartbreaking by turns. Out of these varied materials, Dutton builds a haunting landscape of wildflowers, megadams, black holes, violence, fear, virtual reality, abiding strangeness, and indefinable beauty"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
2024-04-23
Publication Date:
2024-04-23
Publisher:
Coffee House Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1566897033
ISBN13:
9781566897037
Weight:
210 g
Height:
125 cm
Width:
189 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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