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Miss Jane

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Description for Miss Jane Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
'As unexpectedly beguiling as it is affecting.' Daily Mail Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson's work has been as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, he explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-twentieth-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central uses for a woman in that time and place - namely, sex and marriage. From the country doctor who adopts ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509834334
SKU
V9781509834334
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Brad Watson
Brad Watson teaches creative writing at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His first collection, Last Days of the Dog-Men, won the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; his first novel, The Heaven of Mercury, was shortlisted for the National Book Award in 2002, and his second story collection Aliens in the Prime ... Read more

Reviews for Miss Jane
Miss Jane is courageous, resilient and enquiring; her parents are troubled souls, but loving. That said, Watson doesn't succumb to sentimentality . . . With the woods and fields of Jane's rural home seeming to cast a subtle enchantment on her life, hers is a history that is as unexpectedly beguiling as it is affecting.
Daily Mail
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