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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection

Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection

Finger, Anne

Paperback

Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 0803225334
ISBN13: 9780803225336
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
Imagine a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo, two female icons of disability. Or the story of Moby Dick, or, The Leg, told from Ahab's perspective. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel, surviving on food stamps and direct communications with God? Or if the dwarf pictured in a seventeenth-century painting by Velazquez should tell her story? And, finally, imagine the encounter between David and Goliath from the Philistine's point of view. These are the characters who people history and myth as counterpoints to the normal. And they are also the characters who populate Anne Finger's remarkable short stories. Affecting but never sentimental, ironic but never cynical, these wonderfully rich and comic tales reimagine life beyond the margins of normality.

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