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Collected Short Fiction Of Marianne Haus
Marianne Hauser
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Description for Collected Short Fiction Of Marianne Haus
Paperback. Marianne Hauser's short fiction is a literary documentary of exile. These accounts of expatriates and lost children situate us in foreign realms, between the titillating intimacies of strangers and looming brutalities we can never quite see. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Marianne Hauser's short fiction is a literary documentary of exile. These accounts of expatriates and lost children situate us in foreign realms, between the titillating intimacies of strangers and looming brutalities we can never quite see. In Hauser's fiction, expatriation is not a historical accident but a condition as essential to humans as breathing or speech. A young boy's suicide in ""Heartlands Beat"" or a child's vision of her piano teacher's corpse invoke the permanent dislocations that adulthood can never overcome. It is as though birth were, for Hauser, the great forced migration, an incomprehensible banishment from some homeland every ... Read more
Marianne Hauser's short fiction is a literary documentary of exile. These accounts of expatriates and lost children situate us in foreign realms, between the titillating intimacies of strangers and looming brutalities we can never quite see. In Hauser's fiction, expatriation is not a historical accident but a condition as essential to humans as breathing or speech. A young boy's suicide in ""Heartlands Beat"" or a child's vision of her piano teacher's corpse invoke the permanent dislocations that adulthood can never overcome. It is as though birth were, for Hauser, the great forced migration, an incomprehensible banishment from some homeland every ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
Normal, United States
ISBN
9781573661188
SKU
V9781573661188
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About Marianne Hauser
Born in Strasbourg, Alsace, Marianne Hauser has lived and worked in such diverse places as Bhavnagar, India; Tallahassee, Florida; Shanghal, China; and Kirksville, Missouri. Her present home is in New York City, where she is retired after her career as writer, teacher and editor. She has published numerous works of fiction, including prince Ishmael (Sun & Moon Press, 1989), which ... Read more
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