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Elsewhere A Novel

Name: Elsewhere
Author: Alexis Schaitkin

Auteur: Alexis Schaitkin

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Alexis Schaitkin

Engels
Paperback
9781250219626
11 juli 2023
240 pagina's

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Alexis Schaitkin

Alexis Schaitkin’s short stories and essays have appeared in many literary journals and newspapers. Her fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts with her husband and son.

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Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jacksons The Lottery and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear.

Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving in its adherence to tradition, faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. It is the exquisite pain and intrinsic beauty of their lives; it sets them apart from people elsewhere and gives them meaning.

Vera, a young girl when her mother went, is on the cusp of adulthood herself. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate. Reveling in their gossip, they witness each other in motherhood, waiting for signs: this one devotes herself to her child too much, this one not enoughthat must surely draw the afflictions gaze. When motherhood comes for Vera, she is faced with the question: will she be able to stay and mother her beloved child, or will she disappear?

Provocative and hypnotic, Alexis Schaitkins Elsewhere is at once a spellbinding revelation and a rumination on the mysterious task of motherhood and all the ways in which a woman can lose herself to it; the self-monitoring and judgment, the doubts and unknowns, and the legacy she leaves behind.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 11 juli 2023
Aantal pagina's: 240

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Hoofdauteur: Alexis Schaitkin
Hoofduitgeverij: Celadon Books

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Product breedte: 124 mm
Product hoogte: 18 mm
Product lengte: 201 mm
Verpakking breedte: 124 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 18 mm
Verpakking lengte: 201 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 204 g

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EAN: 9781250219626

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