The Fixed Stars : Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season

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Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn's The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic. At the novel's heart are the John's Day celebration and the interactions of a small community dealing with a mystery disease. Rout...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Conn, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social problems.
Plague.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Problemes sociaux > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Peste > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Social problems > Fiction.
Plague > Fiction.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn's The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic. At the novel's heart are the John's Day celebration and the interactions of a small community dealing with a mystery disease. Routinely citizens are quarantined and then reintegrated into society in rituals marked by a haunting brutality. The infected and the healthy alike are quarantined. In a culture that has retreated from urbanism into a more pastoral society, the woman who nurtures spiders and the man who spins hemp exist alongside the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (311 pages).
ISBN:9781573668163

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