Faces in the crowd
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Contributions
- MacSweeney, Christina, translator - Contributor
Publication
2014 - Coffee House Press, Minnesota
Language
English
Word Count
36,500 words, Guess
Page Count
146 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101566893542
- ISBN-139781566893541
- Library of Congress Control Number2013035161
- OCLC Control Number859045901
- Better World Books9781566893541
and 2 more
- Better World BooksO9-AKS-787
- Open LibraryOL27157962M
Classifications
- DDC863/.7
- LCCPQ7298.422.U37 I5413 2014
- LCCPQ7298.422.U37I5413
Description
A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence constantly haunts her in the subway-she also relates the slow but inevitable disintegration of her present family life.
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