Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & A Portrait Gallery

By: Chloe Aridjis

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Synopsis: Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now offers readers her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthyChloe Aridjis&’s stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman guided only by a plastic bag drifting through the streets of Berlin who discovers a nonsense-named bar that is home to papier-mâché monsters and one glass-encased somnambulist. Floating through space, cosmonauts are confronted not only with wonder and astonishment, but tedium and solitude. And in Mexico City, stray dogs animate public spaces, &“infusing them with a noble life force.&” In her pen portraits, Aridjis turns her eye to expats and outsiders, including artists and writers such as Leonora Carrington, Mavis Gallant, and Beatrice Hastings.Exploring the complexity of exile and urban alienation, Dialogue with a Somnambulist showcases &“the rare writer who reinvents herself in each book&” (Garth Greenwell) and who is as imaginatively at home in the short form as in her longer fiction.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781646221837
Related ISBNs:: 9781646221820
Publisher:: Catapult
Date of Addition:: 08/29/23
Copyrighted By:: Chloe Aridjis
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.