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Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread : Poems /

In Ava Leavell HaymonAEs third collection, an unremarkable, harried, contemporary woman named Gretel finds herself at midlife overtaken by the GrimmsAE household tale Hansel and Gretel. The violence and terror in that story supplant the memory of her own childhood, and the fairy tale retells itself...

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Autor principal: Haymon, Ava Leavell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Contents; Acknowledgments; How One Became Two; EVERYGIRL HUNGRY; The Candle House; Recipes from a Family Grimoire; Fairy-Tale Childhood; Everygirl's Mandala; Autobiography; Lunch Break; SMELL OF BAKING; The Witch Has Told You a Story; What Gretel Learns from the Wind; The First Wish; First Bond; What the Witch Wanted; What Gretel Learns from the Witch; Everygirl Practices Deceit; The Blood Time; Everyboy's Accusation; Fairy-Tale Pedagogy; Year's Turn; Everygirl Dreams of Apples; The Riddle; How a Good Girl Learns to Kill; EVERYFIRL SINGS HERSELF AN OLD LULLABY; Cradlesong. 
505 0 |a EVERY STORY MAKES ITS WAY HOMEHere Is a Girl; What the Smoke Knows; What Gretel Takes with Her; Heft; Everyboy Returns; Chill Seeping Out of the Old Forest; The Spell Lifts; Cornucopia. 
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