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Title: Notes from Childhood
Author: LANGE NORAH
Illustrator: WHITTLE CHARLOTTE (ED)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/07/2021
Imprint: AND OTHER STORIES
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
A series of luminous vignettes describe the childhood of Argentina s rediscovered modernist writer. Self-contained, interconnected fragments begin with her family s departure to Mendoza in 1910 and end with their return to Buenos Aires and the death of her father in 1915.
Lange s notes tell intimate, half-understood stories from the seemingly peaceful realm of childhood, a realm inhabited by an eccentric narrator searching for clues on womanhood and her own identity. She watches: her pubescent older sister, bathing naked in the moonlight; the death of a horse; and herself, a changeable and untimely girl. How she cried, when lifted onto a table and dressed as a boy, and how she laughed, climbing onto the kitchen roof in men s clothing and throwing bricks to announce her performance.
Lange makes her domestic setting into a laboratory where strangeness and eroticism combine in delicate, daring flashes of literary brilliance.
ISBN: 9781911508953
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm