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More copies of this ISBNAnnie Oakley's Girlby Rebecca Brown
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"A cult classic, Annie Oakley's Girl has been described as "one of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime" by Tillie Olsen. High praise indeed."
"In the interest of security, we agreed to put out your eyes and burn out the insides of my ears." So begins the story "Folie A Deux," the third story in Brown's collection Annie Oakley's Girl, which must be read with The Terrible Girls and What Keeps Me Here. In these collections we see the set-up and enactment of an I-You relationship. The narrator in all of these is an unnamed I, who recounts events to the You, the beloved. The narrator comes off as an innocent being acted on by the You, but studied more closely, we see the I is both object and subject, victim and creator. Slowly the I progresses, matures, to see the You as a separate person (as She) and not someone to possess and be possessed by. Setting in these stories is not concrete or necessarily realistic, but symbolic and surreal. The characters aren't hinged on the external world, but on internal ones. These stories are at once simple and complex, witty and powerful, brutal and forgiving. They're not to be taken lightly and not to be missed.
"A cult classic, Annie Oakley's Girl has been described as "one of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime" by Tillie Olsen. High praise indeed."
"In the interest of security, we agreed to put out your eyes and burn out the insides of my ears." So begins the story "Folie A Deux," the third story in Brown's collection Annie Oakley's Girl, which must be read with The Terrible Girls and What Keeps Me Here. In these collections we see the set-up and enactment of an I-You relationship. The narrator in all of these is an unnamed I, who recounts events to the You, the beloved. The narrator comes off as an innocent being acted on by the You, but studied more closely, we see the I is both object and subject, victim and creator. Slowly the I progresses, matures, to see the You as a separate person (as She) and not someone to possess and be possessed by. Setting in these stories is not concrete or necessarily realistic, but symbolic and surreal. The characters aren't hinged on the external world, but on internal ones. These stories are at once simple and complex, witty and powerful, brutal and forgiving. They're not to be taken lightly and not to be missed. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Rebecca Brown is the author of The Terrible Girls, The Gifts of the Body, What Keeps Me Here, and The Dogs. Review:"In Annie Oakley's Girl, people are so much larger, their motives, dreams, and mysteries so much more complex than you ever imagined. Love is so much more dangerous, grief so much more powerful, hope so much more tenuous and necessary. I read everything Rebecca Brown writes, watch for her books, and hunt down her short stories. She is simply one of the best contemporary lesbian writers around, and Annie Oakley's Girl is stunning." Dorothy Allison Review:"One of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime. And 'A Good Man,' one of the most important. Rarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring understanding, the wholeness, the truth with which this astonishing, haunting writer creates her people. 'A Good Man' will be a revelation, an epiphany to many a reader." Tillie Olsen About the AuthorRebecca Brown is the author of The Terrible Girls, The Children's Crusade, and The Haunted House. Table of ContentsAnnie 1 The Joy of Marriage 35 Folie A Deux 45 Love Poem 65 The Death of Napoleon: Its Influence on History 71 A Good Man 93 Grief 147 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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