UID:
almafu_9959237241802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (357 p.)
ISBN:
1-57366-867-2
Inhalt:
"Hex is a novel set in Western North Carolina that features a character named Alice Small and her deceased friend Ingrid, whom Alice calls "Thingy." Alice is raising Thingy's daughter, Ingrid the Second, and tells her stories that comprise the novel's narrative, which explores themes of love, friendship, fear, greed, and broken or reinvented histories"--
Inhalt:
"Alice is a motherless child, born to a motherless child, and raised with neither care nor grace. Her response to this multiple abandonment is a lifelong obsession with her best friend Ingrid, or Thingy, as Alice calls her, and a sort of fantastic narcissism wherein she figures herself as the nexus of a supernatural world she understands through a blend of mountain lore, indigenous Cherokee legend, and the dangerous idiom of the fairy-tale girl who enters the forest despite being warned. The novel is written in blended parts and is crafted as an address to Thingy's daughter, Ingrid the Second, who is now in Alice's care. Alice attempts to tell Ingrid the story of her life: her friendship with Thingy; her troubled relationships with her father, a small-town sexual troubadour; her stepmother, a hard-minded business woman who treats all interactions as commerce; her marriage to her husband Jacob, a silent figure of tremendous will; and her growing suspicion that Ingrid is another girl-child around whom disaster accumulates. Simultaneously, Alice tells the child the kind of bedtime stories she herself has used to make sense of her world. For Alice, and thus in Hex, the line between fantasy and reality is nonexistent, the mountain is older than its geology, and the world a limbo in which everything that has ever happened is coming around again. Hex is a novel about violence--the violence of the fist, of the womb, of the story. It is also a novel about language and how we use it to build a world when the one we find around us is irretrievably broken. "--
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents; The Before; The Dragon's Tale; Queen Of The Tie-Snakes; The World Below The World; The Oracle; The Daughter's Tale; Bitch And Dog; Dolores The Duck; King Of Hearts, Queen Of Spades; The Orifice; The Green Knight's Tale; A Song About What Happens Next; The Horse's Tale; "I," Said The Sparrow, "With My Bow And Arrow. I Shot Cock Robin."; The Weeping Woman; The Egg's Tale; The Orifice; The Black Knight's Tale; A Woman Married A Man Who Said He Was The Sun; The Brother's Tale; Goodbye, Goodbye My One True Love; Subject X; The Orifice; The End; Author's Note; Acknowledgments
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-57366-056-6
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Ghost stories.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Ghost stories.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Electronic books.
