The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits
$32.87
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2002
Summary
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is a book of fictions, but they are also true. Over the last ten years, I have often stumbled over a scrap of history so fascinating that I had to stop whatever I was doing and write a story about it. My sources are the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life: surgical case-notes; trial records; a plague ballad; theological pamphlets; a painting of two girls in a garden; an articulated skeleton. Some of the ghosts in thi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860499548 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860499546 |
| Author: | Emma Donoghue |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2002 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 16mm |
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PRAISE FOR”THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO RABBITS”
“An inspired dance on the narrow and exhilarating cliff-edge of art.”–“The Washington Post”
“Through [Donoghue’s] colorful detail we see, hear and smell the poignant episodes in these complex, but ordinary, lives.”–“USA Today”
PRAISE FOR “THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO RABBITS”
“An inspired dance on the narrow and exhilarating cliff-edge of art.”–“The Washington Post”
“Through [Donoghue’s] colorful detail we see, hear and smell the poignant episodes in these complex, but ordinary, lives.”–“USA Today”
About The Author
Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue is an Irish novelist, playwright and historian. Her second novel HOOD won the American Library Association Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Award in 1997. She is currently adapting her novel STIR-FRY for Horizonline Films (Ireland).
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