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The Skull of Charlotte Corday

Autor Leslie Dick
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2002
A brilliant and chilling collection of short stories that descends into the deeper recesses of the human mind and maps the bizarre and troubling byways of human history.Dark, witty, and entertaining, The Skull of Charlotte Corday: And Other Stories returns insistently to the innermost dilemmas of femininity, spinning strange tales of medical humiliation, sexual betrayal, perverse eroticism, and the unsettling traumas of child rearing.The title story, The Skull of Charlotte Corday, tells the true tale of the beautiful assassin, who, during the Great Terror, murdered the French revolutionary leader Jean Paul Marat in his bath. After her public execution, Corday's skull, a rich prize in the head-trading industry of the day, found its way into the hands of a descendant of Napoleon, Princess Marie Bonaparte, who was to become a pioneer psychoanalyst. Leslie Dick skillfully interweaves the astonishing stories of these two women, their melodramatic lives linked by a macabre trophy.From contemporary motherhood in Los Angeles to computer sex in Paris, these stories explore people, places, and emotions with an uncanny eye for detail and a sharp insight into the grand outrageousness of life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780743246057
ISBN-10: 0743246055
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Scribner

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This brilliant collection of short stories descends into the deeper recesses of the human mind and maps the bizarre byways of human history. The title story tells the true tale of the assassin who murdered the French revolutionary leader Jean Paul Marat in his bath. After a public execution, Corday's skull found its way into the hands of Princess Marie Bonaparte, who was to become a pioneer psychoanalyst. Leslie Dick skillfully interweaves the stories of these two women, their lives linked by the macabre trophy.

Notă biografică

Leslie Dick is an artist, educator, and author. She is the author of two novels, Without Falling and Kicking, as well as a collection of short stories, The Skull of Charlotte Corday and Other Stories. Her writing has also appeared in magazines such as East of Borneo and X-TRA.