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Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales By Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales by Karen Elizabeth Gordon


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Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Best known for her Gothic language handbooks (reissued recently as The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire), Karen Elizabeth Gordon here turns her extraordinary talents to fiction, and the result is as unconventional as her seductive grammar dramas. The Red Shoes consists of tatters of a half-dozen tales (The Glass Shoe, The Gingerbread Variations, The Little Match Girl, Don Juan Is a Woman, and the title story, among others) sewn together into a novel by two seamstresses. Fabric, fabrication-such is the stuff of these lost chronicles come together here, Gordon writes in her introduction. Swinging their hatboxes, swaying their hips, chapters with torn slips wander in on high heels and blistered feet. Looking back to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, but also casting sidelong glances at metafictional sugardaddies like Queneau, Nabokov, Cortazar, Gass, and Milorad Pavic, The Red Shoes is a Rabelaisian romp through the language of sensuality.

Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales Reviews

Gordon's isn't the only postmodernist pastiche parading down the pike... but in the company of the metafictional big boys, Gordon can hold her own. -- Columbus Dispatch One of the most innovative and enchanting books of recent time... [Gordon] has constructed a novel in dictionary form in which ordinary words reveal secret worlds that cling passionately to one another in a merry, whirling, lexical dance. -- Thomas Christensen, San Francisco Chronicle [The Red Shoes] make[s] the mundane seem magical and transform[s] our earthbound language into a joy toy of infinite possibility... The voice behind the dictionary is a wonderful creation--a nut in shining amour who comes at the world with both a resolutely girlish imagination and the lusty wisdom of the Wife of Bath. The most enjoyable aspect of The Red Shoes is its all-round lively writing. -- Washington Post

About Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Karen Elizabeth Gordon is the author of seven books, including her mischievous language handbooks The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, The New Well-Tempered Sentence, and Torn Wings and Faux Pas. She divides her time between California and France.

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CIN1564780929G
9781564780928
1564780929
Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Used - Good
Paperback
Dalkey Archive Press
19960301
192
N/A
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