Call Me Ahab - A Short Story Collection

Informationen zum Autor Anne Finger has taught creative writing at Wayne State University in Detroit and at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several books, including Bone Truth: A Novel; Basic Skills: A Short Story Collection; and the memoir Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio. Klappentext Anne Finger has taught creative writing at Wayne State University in Detroit and at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several books! including Bone Truth: A Novel;¿Basic Skills: A Short Story Collection; and the memoir Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio. Zusammenfassung Imagine a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo! ""two female icons of disability"". Or the story of ""Moby Dick! or The Leg""! told from Ahab's perspective. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel? These are the characters who populate Anne Finger's remarkable short stories. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Helen and FridaVincentThe Artist and the DwarfComrade Luxemburg and Comrade Gramsci Pass Each Other at a Congress of the Second International in Switzerland on the 10th of March, 1912GloucesterGoliathThe Blind MarksmanOur NedMoby Dick, or, The Leg

Product details

• Authors: Anne Finger
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9780803225336
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-2533-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in; Prairie Schooner Book Prize in; Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction; The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schoo; The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature