num_pages: 174
description: Edla van Steen's intriguing gallery of characters often reflects the twists and turns of her own life and multifaceted career: short story writer, novelist, playwright, translator, scriptwriter, actor, radio announcer, journalist, and promoter of painting and sculpture. Her stories are filled with dramaturgical scenarios and stageworthy monologues and dialogues and at every turn evoke the touch and feel of canvas, collage, and sculpted wood, stone, and metal. The author brings to her fiction the poet's love of language and unexpected visions of human behavior. Her stories are tightly structured and densely layered compositions packed with striking images, unexpected twists, and tantalizing puzzles.
language: English
title: A Bag of Stories
titlecomplete: A Bag of Stories
genres: Short Stories
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press