Author Name:
Warner, Marina
Title:
The Mermaids in the Basement: Stories
Binding:
Soft cover
Book Condition:
Very Good
Type:
Book
Size:
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Publisher:
London, England
Chatto & Windus Ltd
1993
ISBN Number:
0701146230 / 9780701146238
Seller ID:
12391m
; Wraps paperback printing, 228 pages with index; Textblock is tight and unmarked internally; Six light marks edges of textblock; Bright pictorial cover with no tears, no creasing to spine, modest shelf & edge wear; .......(Reworking familiar legends, folklore and everyday preoccupations, the author Marina Warner crosses the boundaries of time and space to listen to the calling of different heroines and anti-heroines, finding them in places both imaginary and real, and they illuminate situations from a fresh, often intensely subjective angle. The stories range from pain to hope, from cynicism or playful irony, to exaltation, and they draw on the past in order to speak to the modern-day.)
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