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Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments

โœ Scribed by Codrescu, Andrei

Book ID
108935670
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2011
Tongue
en-US
Weight
159 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780691143378

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โœฆ Synopsis

"I fear each passing night that I will not receive my maintenance dose of suspense, and then I will cease to exist."--Whatever Gets You through the Night

Whatever Gets You through the Night is an irreverent and deeply funny retelling of the Arabian Nights and a wildly inspired exploration of the timeless art of storytelling. Award-winning writer Andrei Codrescu reimagines how Sheherezade saved Baghdad's virgins and her own life through a heroic feat of storytelling--one that kept the Persian king Sharyar hanging in agonizing narrative and erotic suspense for 1001 nights. For Sheherezade, the end of either suspense or curiosity means death, but Codrescu keeps both alive in this entertaining tale of how she learned to hold a king in thrall, setting with her endless invention an unsurpassable example for all storytellers across the ages. Liberated and mischievous, Codrescu's Sheherezade is as charming as she is shrewd--and so...

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The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, ... Freely Transcribed from the Original Translation. ...
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