| Description |
x, 259 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Last night -- Werner -- Cheri -- Maybe it happened -- The tomb of wrestling -- Close -- What you seek is seeking you -- Now -- Festival days. |
| Summary |
A collection that includes seven essays and two pieces of short fiction captures both the small moments of daily existence and times when life and death hang in the balance, including the title work about a searing journey through India. |
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"Now, with Festival Days, Beard brings us the culmination of her groundbreaking work. In these nine pieces, she captures both the small, luminous moments of daily existence and those instants when life and death hang in the balance, ranging from the death of a beloved dog to a relentlessly readable account of a New York artist trapped inside a burning building, as well as two triumphant, celebrated pieces of short fiction. Here is an unforgettable collection destined to be embraced and debated by readers and writers, teachers and students. Anchored by the title piece--a searing journey through India that brings into focus questions of mortality and love--Festival Days presents Beard at the height of her powers, using her flawless prose to reveal all that is tender and timeless beneath the way we live now." -- From Goodreads.com. |
| Subject |
Essays -- Women authors.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9780316497237 |
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0316497231 |
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