The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories - Hardcover

Donoghue, Emma

 
9780151009374: The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0151009376 ISBN 13: 9780151009374
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Emma Donoghue was born in Dublin in 1969 and earned her Ph.D. in eighteenth-century fiction at Cambridge. She is the author of three novels, a book of fairy tales, and several works of literary history. She lives in Ontario, Canada. For further information and current news, go to www.EmmaDonoghue.com

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0151009376
ISBN 13 
9780151009374
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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