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226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Each of the six stories in Your Duck is My Duck, Eisenberg's first collection since 2006, has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable but utterly unpredictable logic and her almost uncanny ability to conjure the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through her characters -- a tormented woman whose face determines her destiny; a group of film actors...
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419 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Gathered now into one volume, Eisenberg's stories have an astonishing power and range. Her characters, whether they are walking the streets of Manhattan or seemingly abandoned in foreign countries, continually make disquieting and sometimes life-threatening discoveries about themselves, discoveries that illuminate not only their own lives but also the wider net of relationships in which they are enmeshed. Knowing, witty, and exact, Deborah Eisenberg's...
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English
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Deborah Eisenberg's deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. With lyrical and gleaming prose, Eisenberg pries open daily life to explore the hidden mechanisms of human behavior.
6) Taj Mahal
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Español
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Autora mítica en el panorama del cuento norteamericano, admirada por escritores como Lorrie Moore, John Updike y George Saunders, cada uno de los cuentos de Deborah Eisenberg es un organismo extraño y deslumbrante, capaz, al mismo tiempo, de condensar en sus páginas la complejidad de una novela, cuestionar los límites propios del género y dar cuenta, con ternura y humor, de los imprevistos e imprevisibles desafíos de habitar este mundo.Terriblemente...
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