A01=Kate Bernheimer
Author_Kate Bernheimer
avant-garde literature
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creative fiction
creative writing
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Experimental fiction
experimental storytelling
experimental writing
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fiction collective 2
novel
Product details
- ISBN 9781573660969
- Weight: 257g
- Dimensions: 142 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2002
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a lavishly poetic novel that recounts through folklore and fairy stories the visionary obsessions of a passionate young woman. The narrative moves freely through time and space, uniting Ketzia Gold's early childhood with her sexual awakenings, creating a dreamscape of haunting vividness. Young Ketzia inhabits a storybook world of hallucinatory comedy and terror, surrounded by predatory adults, talking magnolias, and troll-like siblings. Her childhood romance with talented, brilliant Adam Brown flowers briefly into a marriage of tenderness and erotic fervor, but Ketzia cannot escape her own intelligence, and soon finds herself compelled toward intoxicating self-destruction. Kate Bernheimer draws upon the motifs of traditional German, Russian and Yiddish folklore to shape Ketzia's bewildering adventures. The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold embroiders a visionary realism in the manner of Doris Lessing and Clarice Lispector, making Bernheimer's story a rich tapestry, patterned after childhood longings and the luxuriant complexity of womanhood.
KATE BERNHEIMER is a lecturer in English at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. She has been a George Bennett Fellow in Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and has tought in the Summer Writing Program at Harvard. She edited Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore their Favorite Fairy Tales (Anchor Books, 1998). The Complete Tales of Ketzie Gold is her first novel.
