Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House
- ISBN-10
- 1935639110
- ISBN-13
- 9781935639114
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 270
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-07-26
- Publisher
- Tin House Books
- Author
- Rob Spillman
Description
Featuring work by some of the most exciting contemporary women writers in the United States, Fantastic Women comprises eighteen inventive, insightful narratives steeped in a heady potion of surrealism and macabre black comedy. Meet the daughters of Franz Kafka, Mary Shelley, the Brothers Grimm, and Angela Carter. Fantastic Women assembles the work of eighteen inventive, insightful women authors who steep their narratives in a heady potion of surrealism and macabre black comedy. The results are wildly creative stories that capture the truth about human nature far more than much of the fiction (or, for that matter, the nonfiction) being written today. Why just women? More and more women writers are creating work that not only pushes the envelope but also folds realistic fiction into an origami dragon, transporting readers into worlds we’ve never seen before and digging deeper into the psychic bedrock than their male counterparts. So slip into a pocket universe, drive through a family’s home, awake in the night to find you’ve become a deer, and dive into the ocean to join your mermaid mother. We can’t imagine ever wanting to escape this spellbinding world, but if you must, best leave a trail of crumbs along your way.
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- 2011-07-26
- 270 pages
- Paperback
- Tin House Books
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- 2020-02
- 432 pages
- Paperback
- Hirmer Verlag GmbH
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