num_pages: 182
description: Surreal ambitious and exquisitely conceived The Doll's Alphabetis 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.Content:- Unstitching (2017)- The Mouse Queen (2017)- The Gothic Society (2017)- Waxy (2016)- The Doll's Alphabet (2017)- The Mermaid (2017)- Agata's Machine (2015)- Rhinoceros (2017)- The Sad Tale of the Sconce (2017)- Edward Do Not Pamper the Dead (2017)- Hungarian Sprats (2017)- The Moth Emporium (2017)- Notes from a Spider (2017)
language: English
title: The Doll's Alphabet
publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions