The Fixed Stars : Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season.
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...
| Основен автор: | Conn, Brian. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2010.
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| Подобни документи: |
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Fixed Stars : Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (313 pages) |
| ISBN: |
9781573668163 1573668168 |