Storytown
stories
1st ed.
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Word Count
51,000 words, Guess
Page Count
204 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL793936M
- ISBN-101564780945
- OCLC Control Number33863609
- OCLC Control Numberstorytownstories0000dait
- Library of Congress Control Number95026578
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- Goodreads1497135
- LibraryThing467905
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3554.A33 S76 1996
Description
The distinctions between art and life are blurred in this unsettling and tantalizing first collection of short fiction by novelist Susan Daitch (The Colorist, L.C.). In fifteen stories, all concerning "strange displacements of the ordinary," Daitch examines the fringes of the art world in the 20th century. Characters restore or duplicate art objects (legally and otherwise), dub dialogue for foreign films, and look to old movies for guidance. In the title story (based upon a legendary amusement park in upstate New York), a woman works at a children's theme park, where Alice in Wonderland mourns for the Sheriff of Nottingham, who has joined the marines. Combining "downtown aesthetics" with a vivid historical imagination, Susan Daitch's stories have the same qualities that have earned her novels wide praise.
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