The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold (Paperback, 1st ed)

The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a lavishly poetic novel that recounts through folklore and fairy stories the visionary obsessions of a passionate young woman. The narrative moves freely through time and space, uniting Ketzia Gold's early childhood with her sexual awakenings, creating a dreamscape of haunting vividness. Young Ketzia inhabits a storybook world of hallucinatory comedy and terror, surrounded by predatory adults, talking magnolias, and troll-like siblings. Her childhood romance with talented, brilliant Adam Brown flowers briefly into a marriage of tenderness and erotic fervor, but Ketzia cannot escape her own intelligence, and soon finds herself compelled toward intoxicating self-destruction. Kate Bernheimer draws upon the motifs of traditional German, Russian and Yiddish folklore to shape Ketzia's bewildering adventures. The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold embroiders a visionary realism in the manner of Doris Lessing and Clarice Lispector, making Bernheimer's story a rich tapestry, patterned after childhood longings and the luxuriant complexity of womanhood.

General

Imprint:	Fiction Collective Two
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2001
First published:	February 2002
Authors:	Kate Bernheimer
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
Edition:	1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-57366-096-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General
LSN:	1-57366-096-5
Barcode:	9781573660969

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