Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales

Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Paperback

Published : Thursday 18 April 1996

ISBN : 9781564780928

Price : €11.69

Description

Best known for her Gothic language handbooks (reissued recently as The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire), Karen Elizabeth Gordon here turns her extraordinary talents to fiction, and the result is as unconventional as her seductive grammar dramas. The Red Shoes consists of tatters of a half-dozen tales (â?oThe Glass Shoe,â?? â?oThe Gingerbread Variations,â?? â?oThe Little Match Girl,â?? â?oDon Juan Is a Woman,â?? and the title story, among others) sewn together into a novel by two seamstresses. â?oFabric, fabricationâ?"such is the stuff of these lost chronicles come together here,â?? Gordon writes in her introduction. â?oSwinging their hatboxes, swaying their hips, chapters with torn slips wander in on high heels and blistered feet.â??Looking back to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, but also casting sidelong glances at metafictional sugardaddies like Queneau, Nabokov, Cortazar, Gass, and Milorad Pavic, The Red Shoes is a Rabelaisian romp through the language of sensuality.

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