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The Dreaming Girl

Roberta Allen

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Description:A young American traveler in Belize has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In The Dreaming Girl, Roberta Allen’s exquisite and incantatory language slyly manifests how reality may be bent and blurred by desires hidden even to ourselves.PRAISE FOR THE DREAMING GIRLTold in a series of elliptical tableaux and bound by stream of consciousness, Roberta Allen’s The Dreaming Girl is an example of everything that shouldn’t work, and yet it does. Like a literary descendant of Duras, Allen places her unnamed narrator in an exotic Central American limbo that propels her mind into a mesmerizing state somewhere between memory and fantasy.—Ken Foster, The Village VoiceA warm, erotic book, not merely in its story and imagery, but in the very way its prose is structured… Reading this book has the effortless tug of slow water in a jungle river, the buoyant languor of a dream—John Olson, Rain Taxi Review of BooksA choral work where there are endless variations on the same theme, each beautifully developed… The girl’s jungle is not some Henri Rousseau sketch conjured second-hand after an afternoon spent at the Jardin de Plants. Rather it has the precision of field notes written by a solipsistic ecologist.—Mary Mackey, The American Book ReviewWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dreaming Girl. To get started finding The Dreaming Girl, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 142

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Ellipsis Press

Release: 2011

ISBN: 0963753665

Description: A young American traveler in Belize has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In The Dreaming Girl, Roberta Allen’s exquisite and incantatory language slyly manifests how reality may be bent and blurred by desires hidden even to ourselves.PRAISE FOR THE DREAMING GIRLTold in a series of elliptical tableaux and bound by stream of consciousness, Roberta Allen’s The Dreaming Girl is an example of everything that shouldn’t work, and yet it does. Like a literary descendant of Duras, Allen places her unnamed narrator in an exotic Central American limbo that propels her mind into a mesmerizing state somewhere between memory and fantasy.—Ken Foster, The Village VoiceA warm, erotic book, not merely in its story and imagery, but in the very way its prose is structured… Reading this book has the effortless tug of slow water in a jungle river, the buoyant languor of a dream—John Olson, Rain Taxi Review of BooksA choral work where there are endless variations on the same theme, each beautifully developed… The girl’s jungle is not some Henri Rousseau sketch conjured second-hand after an afternoon spent at the Jardin de Plants. Rather it has the precision of field notes written by a solipsistic ecologist.—Mary Mackey, The American Book ReviewWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dreaming Girl. To get started finding The Dreaming Girl, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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