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Praise for Karen Joy Fowler: "No contemporary writer creates characters more appealing, or examines them with greater acuity and forgiveness."—Michael Chabon "Fowler's witty writing is a joy to read."— USA Today In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Norah: Add a description of this character.
- Maura
- Anna
- Mama Strong
- Edwin
- Miss Whitfield
- Brother Porter
- Charlotta
- Mallick
- Eddie
- Daisy
- Davis
- Wilt
- Miss Jackson
- Patwin
- Caroline
- Raphael Kaplinsky
- Sewell
- John Wilkes Booth
- Russell
- Mrs. Streichman
- Vidkun
- Mary Surratt
- Frankie Frye
- Victor
- Carter
- Junius Jr.
- David
- Wallis
- Sam
- Wiechmann
- Wilmet
- Manuel
- Lincoln
- Gigo
- Bastien
- Paul
- Archer
- George Atzerodt
- Redburn
- Hutchings
- Enoch
Quotes edit
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“When men are turned into animals, it’s hard for them to find their way back to themselves. When children are turned into animals, there’s no self to find. There’s never been a feral child who found his way out of the dark. Maybe there’s never been a feral child who wanted to”
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“I knew a man who’d met a man who’d found a thousand-year-old woman while digging for peat. He said you can’t look into a thousand-year-old face and not find yourself just a little bit in love. You can’t took into a thousand-year-old face and think, I bet you were an annoying old nag”
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“In fact I was angry with them all for refusing to believe the photograph even as they looked at it. Her face was indistinct, I grant you that. But you could see how beautiful she was. You could see the longing in those eyes. The fear. You could see that she hadn’t wanted to die along, had surrounded herself with other people, but it hadn’t helped her. I thought we all knew something about that, but maybe it was only me.”
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“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but every day we build Rome”
Table of Contents edit
The Pelican Bar
Booth's Ghost
The Last Worders
The Dark (Nebula 1991)
Always
Familiar Birds
Private Grave 9
The Marianas Islands
Halfway People
Standing Room Only (Nebula 1998)
What I Didn't See (Nebula 2003)
King Rat
Authors & Contributors edit
- Karen Joy Fowler (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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