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Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

Dutton, Danielle

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Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1566897033
ISBN13: 9781566897037
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Apr 23 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
From the strikingly smart and daringly feminist (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and SPRAWL comes a prose collection like no other, where different styles of writing and different spaces of experience create a collage of the depths and strangeness of contemporary life.

Luminous (The Guardian) and brilliantly odd (The Irish Independent), Danielle Dutton's writing is as protean as it is beguiling. In the four eponymous sections of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, Dutton imagines new models for how literature might work in our fractured times.

Prairie is a cycle of surreal stories set in the quickly disappearing prairieland of the American Midwest. Dresses offers a surprisingly moving portrait of literary fashions. Art turns to essay, examining how works of visual art and fiction might relate to one another, a question central to the whole book; while the final section, Other, includes pieces of irregular (other) forms, stories-as-essays or essays-as-stories that defy category and are hilarious and heartbreaking by turns.

Out of these varied materials, Dutton builds a haunting landscape of wildflowers, megadams, black holes, violence, fear, virtual reality, abiding strangeness, and indefinable beauty.

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