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What is not yours is not yours : stories / Helen Oyeyemi.

By: Oyeyemi, Helen [author.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2016Description: 325 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781594634635; 1594634637.Uniform titles: Short stories. Selections Subject(s): Locks and keys -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- FictionGenre/Form: Short stories, English -- Women authors, Black. DDC classification: 823/.92
Contents:
Books and roses -- "Sorry" doesn't sweeten her tea -- Is your blood as red as this? -- Drownings -- Presence -- A brief history of the homely wench society -- Dornička and the St. Martin's Day goose -- Freddy Barrandov checks...in? -- If a book is locked there's probably a good reason for that don't you think.
Summary: The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 823.9 Oy3 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003859014
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Books and roses -- "Sorry" doesn't sweeten her tea -- Is your blood as red as this? -- Drownings -- Presence -- A brief history of the homely wench society -- Dornička and the St. Martin's Day goose -- Freddy Barrandov checks...in? -- If a book is locked there's probably a good reason for that don't you think.

The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness.

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