Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history. Oates is perhaps best known for her prodigious output of novels and short stories, many of w
The Melancholy of Mechagirl Stories and Poems: ssc
β Scribed by Catherynne M. Valente
- Publisher
- VIZMedia;Haikasoru
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 443 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1421564432
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β¦ Synopsis
A woman who dreams of machines. A paper lantern that falls in love. The most compelling video game you've never played and that nobody can ever play twice. This collection of Catherynne M. Valente's stories and poems with Japanese themes includes the lauded novella "Silently and Very Fast," the award-nominated "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time," and "Ghosts of Gunkanjima"--which originally appeared in a book smaller than your palm, published in a limited edition of twenty-four.Also included are two new stories: the semiautobiographical, metafictional, and utterly magical "Ink, Water, Milk" and the cinematic, demon-haunted "Story No. 6." Rated: T
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