Description
| Product ID: | 9781788168793 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Impostor |
| Subtitle: | and Other Stories |
| Authors: | Author: Silvina Ocampo, Daniel Balderston |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Fiction and Related items, Fiction & related items, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Short stories, Fiction in translation, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Fantastical, unnerving short stories from a Surrealist master of the form. Whimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A thief breaks into the house of a psychic with disastrous results, a bride has her personality subsumed by the previous occupant of her home, and two men switch destinies for a change of pace. The Impostor offers a comprehensive collection from one of the twentieth century''s great forgotten woman writers. Here are tales of doubles and living dolls, angels and demons, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, and much else that is mad, sublime, and delicious.With an array spanning the length of Ocampo''s career, these haunting stories are among the world''s strangest and best. |
| Imprint Name: | Serpent's Tail |
| Publisher Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-12-02 |
