Chattering: Stories Contributor(s): Stern, Louise (Author) |
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ISBN: 1847081770 ISBN-13: 9781847081773 Publisher: Granta Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Women |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" L (0.30 lbs) 170 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/05/2011 Booklist 11/01/2011 pg. 20 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Louise Stern's stories are peopled with brave young girls, out to party, travel the world, go a little bit wild. The one thing that marks them out from their peers is that they have grown up deaf. They communicate with the outside world via a complicated mixture of sign language, lip-reading, note-scribbling, guesswork and instinct. Yet they are full of daring, ready for adventures that take them into unfamiliar places and strange, cock-eyed relationships with people whose actions they observe but never wholly understand. It is this sense of dislocation from common experience that marks out Louise Stern's original voice. She is fully engaged in the world we recognize and share, but the way she observes it sets her apart. Her eyes are keen; she notices things we would never see; she is quick to judge, wary, suspicious and vulnerable. She experiences the world like a voyeur, always watching, yet able to retreat to an interior silence that nobody from the outside can ever reach. |
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