Little Labours. Rivka Galchen

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Название Little Labours
Автор произведения Rivka Galchen
Жанр Биографии и Мемуары
Серия
Издательство Биографии и Мемуары
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9780008225193



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       Copyright

      4th Estate

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017

      First published in the United States by New Directions in 2016

      Copyright © Rivka Galchen 2016

      Design by Erik Rieselbach

      Cover image © Cougar (coloured engraving), German School, (19th century) /

      Private Collection / © Purix Verlag Volker Christen / Bridgeman Images

      Rivka Galchen asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      “Notes on Some Twentieth-Century Writers” originally appeared in Harper’s Magazine.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780008225186

      Ebook Edition © October 2016 ISBN: 9780008225193

      Version: 2017-04-03

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Head shape

       The romantic comedy

       Wiped out

       The species

       Literature has more dogs than babies

       More Frankenstein

       And movies

       Princess Kaguya

       Rumpelstiltskin

       How the puma affects others, one

       How the puma affects others, two

       Notes on some twentieth-century writers

       Other people’s babies

       Other people’s babies, two

       Other people’s babies, three

       Other people’s babies, four

       Reversals

       Mother writers

       When the baby came home

       When the empress moved

       Screens

       iPhone footage

       Lots of writers have children

       In Flagstaff, one

       In Flagstaff, two

       New variety of depression

       A baby is an ideal vector for a revenge plot

       A modern anxiety

       Things that one was misleadingly told were a big part of having a baby

       Babies in art

       Video games

       Orange