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The Houseguest: And Other Stories
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ISBN10: 0811228215
ISBN13: 9780811228213
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Nov 27 2018
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780811228213
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Nov 27 2018
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila's stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted--you'll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest--Dávila's debut collection in English--you'll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.
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