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Little Labours (Paperback)
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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A droll and dazzling compendium of
observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies.
'Beguiling ... A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios ... A
peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.' Boston Globe One
August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a
puma moved into her apartment. Her arrival felt supernatural, she
seemed to come from another world. And suddenly, the world seemed
ludicrously, suspiciously, adverbially sodden with meaning. But
Galchen didn't want to write about the puma. She had never been
interested in babies, or in mothers before. Now everything seemed
directly related to them and she specifically wanted to write about
other things because it might mean she was really, covertly,
learning something about babies, or about being near babies. The
result is Little Labours, a slanted enchanted miscellany. Galchen
writes about babies in art (with wrongly shaped head) and babies in
literature (rarer than dogs or abortions, often monstrous); about
the effort of taking a passport photo for a baby not yet able to
hold up her head and the frightening prevalence of orange as
today's chic colour for baby gifts; about Frankenstein as a sort of
baby and a baby as a sort of Godzillas. In doing so she opens up an
odd and tender world of wonder.
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