Hermine An Animal Life |
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| Author:
| Beig, Maria |
| Translator:
| Gordon, Jaimy |
| ISBN: | 978-1-930974-48-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Publisher: | New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.00USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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Fiction. Translation. "Marie Beig's HERMINE is a heartbreaking bestiary, a human life told in sixty-four animals. The book's design is apt, since its protagonist elicits less regard from her farm family than its animals do. Imagine a world in which your first memories are of your 'father's bad-tempered scowl and the angry faces of sisters and brothers who were struck and struck back.' A world in which tenderness is 'always turning away again to someone else' -- -Jim Shepard. Translated...
More DescriptionFiction. Translation. "Marie Beig's HERMINE is a heartbreaking bestiary, a human life told in sixty-four animals. The book's design is apt, since its protagonist elicits less regard from her farm family than its animals do. Imagine a world in which your first memories are of your 'father's bad-tempered scowl and the angry faces of sisters and brothers who were struck and struck back.' A world in which tenderness is 'always turning away again to someone else' -- -Jim Shepard. Translated from the German by Jaimy Gordon.