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What is not yours is not yours : stories / Helen Oyeyemi.

Oyeyemi, Helen, (author.).

Summary:

The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781594634635
  • ISBN: 1594634637
  • Physical Description: 325 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2016.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Books and roses -- "Sorry" doesn't sweeten her tea -- Is your blood as red as this? -- Drownings -- Presence -- A brief history of the homely wench society -- Dornicka and the St. Martin's Day goose -- Freddy Barrandov checks...in? -- If a book is locked there is probably a good reason for that don't you think.
Target Audience Note:
1040L Lexile
Subject:
Locks and keys > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Genre:
Short stories, English.
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 15 of 17 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Madison County Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
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Madison Main Library FIC OYE (Text) 30229101045796 Adult Fiction Available -
Mars Hill Library FIC OYE (Text) 30229101045804 Adult Fiction Available -

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