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What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

Book ID
126945175
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
5 MB
Category
Standards

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✦ Synopsis

The stories in Laura van den Berg’s rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane.
A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot impersonator. A grieving missionary becomes obsessed with a creature rumoured to live in the forests of the Congo. And, in the title story, a young woman travelling with her scientist mother in Madagascar confronts her burgeoning sexuality and her dream of becoming a long-distance swimmer.

✦ Subjects

Современная русская и зарубежная проза

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