**An adventure with a roving genius of literary criticism** Michael Hofmann--a poet, translator, and intellectual vagabond--has established himself as one of the keenest critics of contemporary literature. Safely nestled between the covers of _Where Have You Been?_ , he offers a hand to guide us a
You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories
β Scribed by Rickert, Mary
- Book ID
- 110023010
- Publisher
- Small Beer Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 203 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781618731104
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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Open this book to any page and find yourself enspelled by these lush, alchemical stories. Faced with the uncanny and the impossible, Rickert's protagonists are as painfully, shockingly, complexly human as the readers who will encounter them. Mothers, daughters, witches, artists, strangers, winged babies, and others grapple with deception, loss, and moments of extraordinary joy.
Praise for Mary Rickert's books:
"The Memory Garden is a lovely book of women, friendship, sadness and healing, and it is genuinely uplifting. Like the garden of its title, this is a book to take in slowly, to spend time in, to wander through; you'll likely find your-selves the better for it."-- NPR
"This is a novel haunted by mortality--with people who died young, with people now old and dying, with ghosts. But it is often a joyful novel, a novel of life, forgiveness and good meals with friends and strangers."--_Los Angeles Review...
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