Proper Name and Other Stories

by Bernadette Mayer

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Proper Name collects for the first time the inimitable stories of Bernadette Mayer--"one of the most original writers of her generation" (The Washington Post).

The nineteen narratives of Proper Name include "My Excellent Novel," "Ice Cube Epigrams," "Essay: How Carefully Do We Tend?" and "Juan Gave Nora a Pomegranate." Mayer's structural inventions are terrific and unique. As Fanny Howe remarked in The American Book Review, "In a language...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0811213250

ISBN13:9780811213257

Release Date:June 1996

Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation

Length:152 Pages

Weight:0.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Related Subjects

Classics Contemporary Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Short Stories

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