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Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith

✍ Scribed by Dickey, Colin

Book ID: 108076263
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 415 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781609530723

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✦ Synopsis

Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges' "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, "and so forth" -- each essay focusing on the story of a particular (and particularly strange) saint.

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