Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection (The Raz/Shumaker

Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)
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Imagine a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo, â€œtwo female icons of disability.â€ Or the story of â€œMoby Dick, or, The Leg,â€ told from Ahabâ€™s perspective. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel, surviving on food stamps and direct communications with God? Or if the dwarf pictured in a seventeenth-century painting by Velazquez should tell her story? And, finally, imagine the encounter between David and Goliath from the Philistineâ€™s point of view.
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These are the characters who people history and myth as counterpoints to the â€œnormal.â€ And they are also the characters who populate Anne Fingerâ€™s remarkable short stories. Affecting but never sentimental, ironic but never cynical, these wonderfully rich and comic tales reimagine life beyond the margins of â€œnormality.â€
Country USA
Brand Bison Books
Manufacturer Bison Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780803225336
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EANs 9780803225336
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)