The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold: A Novel - Softcover

Bernheimer, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573660965 ISBN 13: 9781573660969

Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, 2002

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The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a lavishly poetic novel that recounts through folklore and fairy stories the visionary obsessions of a passionate young woman. The narrative moves freely through time and space, uniting Ketzia Gold's early childhood with her sexual awakenings, creating a dreamscape of haunting vividness. Young Ketzia inhabits a storybook world of hallucinatory comedy and terror, surrounded by predatory adults, talking magnolias, and troll-like siblings. Her childhood romance with talented, brilliant Adam Brown flowers briefly into a marriage of tenderness and erotic fervor, but Ketzia cannot escape her own intelligence, and soon finds herself compelled toward intoxicating self-destruction. Kate Bernheimer draws upon the motifs of traditional German, Russian and Yiddish folklore to shape Ketzia's bewildering adventures. The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold embroiders a visionary realism in the manner of Doris Lessing and Clarice Lispector, making Bernheimer's story a rich tapestry, patterned after childhood longings and the luxuriant complexity of womanhood.

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Kate Bernheimer attended Wesleyan University and received her M.F.A. from the University of Arizona. She has taught in the Harvard Summer Writing Program and has been the George Bennett Fellow in Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. The editor of the book Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Doubleday), she teaches at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is Bernheimer's first novel.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1573660965
• ISBN 13: 9781573660969
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Dolen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande