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Original Essays | October 18, 2009

Victoria Hislop: IMG From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration

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My first novel, The Island, was inspired by a chance visit to a tiny island leper colony off the coast of Greece on our summer holiday. It was a... Continue »
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The Religious and Other Fictions (Carnegie Mellon University Press Series in Fiction)

by Christina Milletti

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ISBN13: 9780887484537
ISBN10: 0887484530
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Christina Milletti combines the pithy with the symphonic while retaining them fused, and she takes her time, maintaining a total effect like a Stravinsky sonata. A writer of gifted prose is among us again. — Paul West
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Christina Milletti's fiction has appeared in The Chicago Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, and Best American Voices, among other journals and anthologies. She studied writing at Brown University and now teaches at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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ISBN:
9780887484537
Author:
Milletti, Christina
Publisher:
Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
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191 p.
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Stories (single author)
Copyright:
2006
Series:
Carnegie Mellon University Press Series in Fiction
Publication Date:
August 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
191
Dimensions:
7.92x5.25x.57 in. .55 lbs.
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