Book
Faces in the crowd / Valeria Luiselli ; translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781566893541 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1566893542 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 146, [8] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2014.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translation of: Ingrv̀idos. Includes an essay from Sidewalks (p. [150]-[154]). |
| Summary, etc.: | A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence constantly haunts her in the subway-she also relates the slow but inevitable disintegration of her present family life. |
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| Subject: | Women authors > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. Mexico City (Mexico) > Fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
