Книга: Harris, Joanne «Jigs&Reels»
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Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear: in these twenty-two short stories from the author of Holy Fools and Five Quarters of the Orange, the miraculous goes hand-in-hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive and the disturbing are never more than one step away. Jigs&Reels is Joanne Harris's first collection of short stories. As she says in her foreword, a good short story can startle, ignite, and illuminate... giving you vivid, anarchic glimpses into different worlds, different people. Here, she proves she is as good as her word by creating an eclectic selection of tales for our times that will delight, surprise, entertain and horrify in equal measure. Sly, funny, sometimes provocative but always personal, Jigs&Reels shows a side to Joanne Harris you have never seen before. So...
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I. biographical name Barbara Clementine 1930- American bishop II. biographical name Frank 1856-1931 American (Irish-born) writer III. biographical name Joel Chandler 1848-1908 American writer IV. biographical name Roy 1898-1979 American composer V. biographical name William Torrey 1835-1909 American philosopher & educator VI. geographical name — see Lewis with Harris
Источник: Harris
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