{"product_id":"the-dolls-alphabet-9781566894906","title":"The Doll's Alphabet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This doll's eye view is a total delight and surveys a world awash with shadowy wit and exquisite collisions of beauty and the grotesque.\" --Helen Oyeyemi, author of \u003ci\u003eBoy, Snow, Bird\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Down to its most particular details, \u003ci\u003eThe Doll's Alphabet \u003c\/i\u003ecreates an individual world--a landscape I have never encountered before, which now feels like it was been waiting to be captured, and waiting to captivate, all along.\" --Sheila Heti, author of \u003ci\u003eHow Should a Person Be\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marvellous. Grudova understands that the best writing has to pull off the hardest aesthetic trick--it has to be both memorable and fleeting.\" --Deborah Levy, author of \u003ci\u003eHot Milk \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies--by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Doll's Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e are by turns child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark: the marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCamilla Grudova \u003c\/b\u003elives in Toronto. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe White Review \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566894906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Camilla Grudova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659992363164,"sku":"9781566894906","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_770d29e0-bd3a-4004-8c3d-f81e294f9c10.jpg?v=1603895891","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-dolls-alphabet-9781566894906","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}