The woman who gave birth to rabbits : stories
by Donoghue, Emma, 1969-
Print Book 2002 |
Available at 3 Libraries 3 of 3 copies |
Summary
Donoghue finds her inspiration for these wry, robust tales in obscure scraps of historical records: an engraving of a woman giving birth to rabbits; a plague ballad; surgical case notes; theological pamphlets; an articulated skeleton. Here kings, surgeons, soldiers, and ladies of leisure rub shoulders with cross-dressers, cult leaders, poisoners, and arsonists.
Whether she's spinning the tale of an Irish soldier tricked into marrying a dowdy spinster, a Victorian surgeon's attempts to "improve" women, a seventeenth-century countess who ran away to Italy disguised as a man, or an "undead" murderess returning for the maid she left behind to be executed in her place, Emma Donoghue brings to her stories an "elegant, colorful prose filled with unforgettable sights, sounds and smells" ( Elle ). Here she summons the ghosts of those women who counted for nothing in their own day, but who come to unforgettable life in fiction.
Whether she's spinning the tale of an Irish soldier tricked into marrying a dowdy spinster, a Victorian surgeon's attempts to "improve" women, a seventeenth-century countess who ran away to Italy disguised as a man, or an "undead" murderess returning for the maid she left behind to be executed in her place, Emma Donoghue brings to her stories an "elegant, colorful prose filled with unforgettable sights, sounds and smells" ( Elle ). Here she summons the ghosts of those women who counted for nothing in their own day, but who come to unforgettable life in fiction.
Contents
The last rabbitActs of union
The fox on the line
Account
Revelations
Night vision
Ballad
Come, gentle night
Salvage
Cured
Figures of speech
Words for things
How a lady dies
A short story
Dido
The necessity of burning.
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Additional Information
Subjects |
Eccentrics and eccentricities
-- Fiction.
Curiosities and wonders -- Fiction. Historical fiction, English. Women -- Fiction. |
Publisher | New York :Harcourt,2002 |
Edition | 1st ed. |
Language |
English |
Description |
255 pages ; 21 cm |
ISBN | 0151009376 |
Other | Classic View |