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The Doll's Alphabet
| Author: | Camilla Grudova |
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Coffee House Press, 2017 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction / Horror |
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Synopsis
Surreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, The Doll's Alphabet is a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies many images recur in stories that are in turn child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark. In "Unstitching", a feminist revolution takes place. In "Waxy", a factory worker fights to keep hold of her Man in a society where it is frowned upon to be Manless. In "Agata's Machine", two schoolgirls conjure a Pierrot and an angel in a dank attic room. In "Notes from a Spider", a half-man, half-spider finds love in a great European city. By constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has come up with a method for storytelling that is highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting.
Table of Contents:
- Unstitching
- The Mouse Queen
- The Gothic Society
- Waxy
- The Doll's Alphabet
- The Mermaid
- Agata's Machine
- Rhinoceros
- The Sad Tale of the Sconce
- Edward, Do Not Pamper the Dead
- Hungarian Sprats
- The Moth Emporium
- Notes from a Spider
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