Jacks A Gothic Gospel |
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Author:
| Stone, Anne |
Series title: | New Writers Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-919688-25-4 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1998 |
Publisher: | DC Books
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $23.95 |
Book Description:
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Part fictional memoir, part fairy-tale, jacks is the story of Hermeline, a young girl whose fabulated world is an interlacing of myths, rhymes, incantations and memories, a thousand and one tales beneath whose surface lies the violence of childhood, forever lost in the brilliance of fiction.Like a disturbing and recurring dream, jacks will plunge you into the terror of language and myth. jacks: a gothic gospel is the first novel by Montreal writer...
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Part fictional memoir, part fairy-tale, jacks is the story of Hermeline, a young girl whose fabulated world is an interlacing of myths, rhymes, incantations and memories, a thousand and one tales beneath whose surface lies the violence of childhood, forever lost in the brilliance of fiction.Like a disturbing and recurring dream, jacks will plunge you into the terror of language and myth.
jacks: a gothic gospel is the first novel by Montreal writer Anne Stone. It is a book sure to make a profound impression -- a powerful and moving novel unlike any other in Canadian literature, and one that you are not likely to forget.