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Dreadful young ladies and other stories, Kelly Barnhill

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Dreadful young ladies and other stories, Kelly Barnhill

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Dreadful young ladies and other stories

Responsibility statement

Kelly Barnhill

Summary

A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original, these stories demonstrate the strength and power -- known and unknown -- of the imagination

Table Of Contents

Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch -- Open the door and the light pours through -- The dead boy's last poem -- Dreadful young ladies -- The taxidermist's other wife -- Elegy to Gabrielle, patron saint of healers, whores, and righteous thieves -- Notes on the untimely death of Ronia Drake -- The insect and the astronomer: a love story -- The unlicensed magician

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