| The World and Other Places: Stories Contributor(s): Winterson, Jeanette (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375702369 ISBN-13: 9780375702365 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 7.86" (0.57 lbs) 240 pages |