The Doll's Alphabet
Author: Camilla Grudova
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Price : 34.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781566894906 Publisher : Coffee House Press Imprint : Coffee House Press Contained items : Weight (g) : Publication date : 01 October 2017 Dimensions : ---length:- '8.25'width:- '5.5'units:- Inches Produced in : Availability date : Out of print date : Agency :
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color : size : Author : Camilla Grudova Series : Bind : Paperback Edition : Illustrator : Language : English Dewey classification : 813.6 Pages : 192 BIC subject : Illustrations : Colour : Session : Deck : Translator : Signed :
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_______________________ THOMAS'S REVIEW: As surreal and "beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella" (to use words written in anticipation by le Comte de Lautréamont (with particular emphasis with reference to this collection upon the sewing machine)), Grodova's stories, full of baroque detail worn via patina to a thinness that makes them dangerously sharp to handle, take place in a world governed by strange customs, where significance is found in odd conjunctions, where obsessions assume the fatal ordinariness of custom, where only misfits approach normal, and where childhood is the conduit of immense threat, to children, parents and to wider society. All that is riven will henceforth continue to diverge, but Grodova's stories, lying on an axis of mitteleuropean flavour somewhere between Grimm's tales and accounts of Soviet privations, and on another axis somewhere between the stories of Angela Carter (pleasantly close to these) and those of Ben Marcus, have as much delight (and even hope) in them as they do despair, for, after all, with an imagination as fertile (and a hand as steady) as Grudova's, anything could happen (not only the dreadful).
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Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies - by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in The Doll's Alphabet are by turns childlike and naive, grotesque and very dark, the marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.