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Little Labors

Rivka Galchen

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9780811222969
UPC:
9780811222969
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Published by:
New Directions
Pub date:
03/26/2019
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
144
ISBN:
9780811222969
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In this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers--Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Djuna Barnes, Mavis Gallant--is zero, that orange is the new baby pink, that The Tale of Genji has no plot but plenty of drama about paternity, that babies exude an intoxicating black magic, and that a baby is a goldmine.