Call me Ahab : a short story collection /
Imagine a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo, "two female icons of disability." Or the story of "Moby Dick, or, The Leg," told from Ahab's perspective. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel, surviving on food stamps and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2009.
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Colección: | Prairie schooner book prize in fiction.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Imagine a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo, "two female icons of disability." Or the story of "Moby Dick, or, The Leg," told from Ahab's perspective. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel, surviving on food stamps and direct communications with God? Or if the dwarf pictured in a seventeenth-century painting by Velazquez should tell her story? And, finally, imagine the encounter between David and Goliath from the Philistine's point of view |
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Notas: | "Bison books"--Spine |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 192 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780803226449 0803226446 1282423754 9781282423756 9786612423758 6612423757 |