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Book:Name: Yiyun Li - Wednesday's Child (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 561.83 KB
Description:Title: Wednesday's Child
Author: Yiyun Li
Language: English
Year: 1992
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 033048219
Total pages: N/A
Download from RapidGatorA new collection-about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life-by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose.
A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li's stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces-death, violence, estrangement-come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey, a mound of wounded ants, a photograph kept hidden for many years, until it must be seen.
Li is a truly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and...
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