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Craft : stories I wrote for the devil / Ananda Lima.
Van Pelt Library PS3612.I4685 C73 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lima, Ananda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- United States.
- Brazil--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Brazil.
- Authors--Fiction.
- Authors.
- Demonology--Fiction.
- Demonology.
- Immigrants--Fiction.
- Immigrants.
- Brazilian Americans--Fiction.
- Brazilian Americans.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Magic realist fiction
- Literary fiction.
- Short stories.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Horror fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : A Tor Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group, 2024.
- Summary:
- A collection of short stories as told by a Brazilian-American writer who slept with the devil at a Halloween party in 1999 and who spends the rest of her life describing to him beautiful and impossible things.
- "At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true. Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they'll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences-of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging-and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home. With humor, an exquisite imagination, and a voice praised as "singular and wise and fresh" (Cathy Park Hong), Lima joins the literary lineage of Bulgakov and Lispector and the company of writers today like Ted Chiang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil includes: "Rapture," "Ghost Story," "Tropicália," "Antropógaga," "Idle Hands," "Rent," "Porcelain," "Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory," and "Hasselblad"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Rapture
- Ghost story
- Tropicália
- Antropófago
- Idle hands
- Rent
- Porcelain
- Heaven, hell, and purgatory
- Hasselblad: Triptych.
- ISBN:
- 9781250292971
- 1250292972
- OCLC:
- 1393204696
- Publisher Number:
- 90100521885
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