The Book of Heaven
Autor Patricia Storaceen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 noi 2014
From the author of the acclaimed "Dinner with Persephone" comes a radically original novel about four women who invite us to imagine the divine anew: what if "a woman's point of view" were also God's?
Patricia Storace's Eve begins by telling us her version of what happened in Eden, and by revealing that our familiar constellations conceal other heavens we have never allowed ourselves to see. Each of the four subsequent chapters is the story of one of these new zodiacs, featuring images central to women: a knife, a cauldron, a garden, a pair of embracing lovers. The four women whose stories they tell are Job's daughter, the Queen of Sheba, a polytheistic cook, and a transformed Sarah, wife of Abraham. Storace brilliantly reimagines the worlds of these women, freeing them from the old tales in which they were trapped and putting them in the foreground of their stories and of the Old Testament itself.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780375707551
ISBN-10: 0375707557
Pagini: 363
Dimensiuni: 151 x 202 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0375707557
Pagini: 363
Dimensiuni: 151 x 202 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
"Fleeing Orion the Hunter, the biblical figure of Eve is carried away by a river of stars to another Heaven where unfamiliar, female-inspired constellations are visible. In her visionary first novel, Storace gives voice to the stories behind four of them, tales of women dwelling in different yet not unfamiliar worlds of oppression and submission. Stupendously imagined and detailed, occasionally didactic and dense, Storace's descriptions of the four women's lives that inspired these unknown star formations are filled with distantly recognizable tribes, beliefs, dynasties and social systems. . . . Several of the stories are modeled on Old Testament figures; all recount lavishly complicated regimes in which the women suffer intensely but where their isolation can result in extraordinary acts. Storace's striking feminist mythopoeic work offers provocative alternatives in beautifully crafted prose."
--"Kirkus" (starred review)
"Mystical, lyrical, fascinating . . . A fine author can create stories that open one's mind to alternative views of entrenched archetypes. In a lyrical, feministic, fictional version of Joseph Campbell's "The Power of Myth", this is a marvelous, thought-provoking book for readers who enjoy mythologies which reach down into one's soul. Highly recommended."
--"Library Journal "(starred review)
"Acclaimed poet and memoirist Storace steps onto the terrain of myth, creating a feminist cosmology. . . . Poetic, elusive, and thought provoking."
--"Publishers Weekly"
"Storace's imaginative look into the nature of eternity, memory, and the divine leaves readers with much to contemplate. A stunningly poetic and mythological novel."
--"Booklist"
"A stunningly poetic and mythological novel. . . . An imaginative look into the nature of eternity, memory, and the divine." --"Booklist
""Stupendously imagined and detailed. . . . Storace's striking feminist mythopoeic work offers provocative alternatives in beautifully crafted prose." --"Kirkus" (starred review)
"Mystical, lyrical, fascinating. . . . This is a marvelous, thought-provoking book for readers who enjoy mythologies which reach down into one's soul." --"Library Journal "(starred review)
"Acclaimed poet and memoirist Storace steps onto the terrain of myth, creating a feminist cosmology. . . . Poetic, elusive, and thought provoking." --"Publishers Weekly"
--"Kirkus" (starred review)
"Mystical, lyrical, fascinating . . . A fine author can create stories that open one's mind to alternative views of entrenched archetypes. In a lyrical, feministic, fictional version of Joseph Campbell's "The Power of Myth", this is a marvelous, thought-provoking book for readers who enjoy mythologies which reach down into one's soul. Highly recommended."
--"Library Journal "(starred review)
"Acclaimed poet and memoirist Storace steps onto the terrain of myth, creating a feminist cosmology. . . . Poetic, elusive, and thought provoking."
--"Publishers Weekly"
"Storace's imaginative look into the nature of eternity, memory, and the divine leaves readers with much to contemplate. A stunningly poetic and mythological novel."
--"Booklist"
"A stunningly poetic and mythological novel. . . . An imaginative look into the nature of eternity, memory, and the divine." --"Booklist
""Stupendously imagined and detailed. . . . Storace's striking feminist mythopoeic work offers provocative alternatives in beautifully crafted prose." --"Kirkus" (starred review)
"Mystical, lyrical, fascinating. . . . This is a marvelous, thought-provoking book for readers who enjoy mythologies which reach down into one's soul." --"Library Journal "(starred review)
"Acclaimed poet and memoirist Storace steps onto the terrain of myth, creating a feminist cosmology. . . . Poetic, elusive, and thought provoking." --"Publishers Weekly"
Notă biografică
Born in Chicago, Illinois, and reared in Mobile, Alabama, Patricia Storace was educated at Columbia University and the University of Cambridge. She is the author of "Dinner with Persephone, " a travel memoir that won the Runciman Award; "Heredity, " a book of poems; and "Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel, " a children's book. She received the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1993. She has been a frequent contributor to "The New York Review of Books" and "Conde Nast Traveler."
Descriere
From the author of the acclaimed "Dinner with Persephone" comes a radically original novel about four women who invite us to imagine the divine anew: what if "a woman's point of view" were also God's?
Patricia Storace's Eve begins by telling us her version of what happened in Eden, and by revealing that our familiar constellations conceal other heavens we have never allowed ourselves to see. Each of the four subsequent chapters is the story of one of these new zodiacs, featuring images central to women: a knife, a cauldron, a garden, a pair of embracing lovers. The four women whose stories they tell are Job's daughter, the Queen of Sheba, a polytheistic cook, and a transformed Sarah, wife of Abraham. Storace brilliantly reimagines the worlds of these women, freeing them from the old tales in which they were trapped and putting them in the foreground of their stories and of the Old Testament itself.
Patricia Storace's Eve begins by telling us her version of what happened in Eden, and by revealing that our familiar constellations conceal other heavens we have never allowed ourselves to see. Each of the four subsequent chapters is the story of one of these new zodiacs, featuring images central to women: a knife, a cauldron, a garden, a pair of embracing lovers. The four women whose stories they tell are Job's daughter, the Queen of Sheba, a polytheistic cook, and a transformed Sarah, wife of Abraham. Storace brilliantly reimagines the worlds of these women, freeing them from the old tales in which they were trapped and putting them in the foreground of their stories and of the Old Testament itself.