| Retelling Contributor(s): Keller, Tsipi (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933132191 ISBN-13: 9781933132198 Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil OUR PRICE: $13.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005028367 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.08" W x 8" (0.89 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Retelling-a novel by Tsipi Keller- It is the end of the millennium. A relaxed and anticipated summer on Manhattan's East Side turns into a nightmare for the impressionable and vulnerable Sally. In this tightly woven novel, she is suspected of having murdered her closest friend, Elsbeth, with whom she has had a mysterious and absorbing relationship. Traumatized by the detectives, and by her own confused recollections, Sally experiences "subtle reality shifts, as if I existed, simultaneously, on two or more fault lines and could not always trust what I thought I saw or heard. I began to doubt small, ordinary things." Keller's lean, taut, and unsettling prose enhances the simmering suspense that permeates this novel, as she fuses the elements of a Rashomon-type narrative with a Hitchcock classic. |
Contributor Bio(s): Keller, Tsipi: - Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the United States since 1974. Her short fiction, and her poetry translations, have appeared in many journals and anthologies; her novels, The Prophet of Tenth Street (1995) and Leverage (1997) were translated into Hebrew and published by Sifriat Poalim. (Currently, The Prophet of Tenth Street is being translated into German.) Keller's translation of Dan Pagis's posthumous collection, Last Poems, was published by The Quarterly Review of Literature (1993), and her translation of Irit Katzir's posthumous collection, And I Wrote Poems, was published by Carmel in 2000. Among her awards are: A National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts grants, and an Armand G. Erpf award from Columbia University. Her novels RETELLING (2006) and JACKPOT (2004) were published by Spuyten Duyvil. |