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Gabrielle Wittkop Exemplary Departures (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Exemplary DeparturesCondition: NewISBN-10: 193966313XEAN: 9781939663139ISBN: 9781939663139Publisher: Wakefield PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/07/2016Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 150mmAuthor: Gabrielle WittkopTranslator: Annette DavidContributor: Annette David (Translated by)Genre: FictionDescription: Exemplary Departures consists of five exquisitely wrought novellas depicting five "exemplary" deaths in various exotic locations around the globe: a gentleman spy disappears with his secrets into the Malaysian jungle; a young woman agonizes atop a ruined castle overlooking the Rhine; a writer succumbs to alcoholism in the streets of Baltimore; a salesman expires as a vagabond in the sewers of New York; and hermaphroditic twins are assassinated in a stagecoach. Drawing from the remnants of real-life anecdotes--from Edgar Allan Poe's final days to the agonizing tale of Idilia Dubb--these stories are imagined descents into death's supreme indifference. A true modern inheritor of the legacy of the French Decadent writers, Wittkop spins these tales with her trademark macabre elegance and chilling humor, maneuvering in an uncertain space between dark Romanticism, Gothic Expressionism and Sadean cruelty. "Death is life's most important moment," Wittkop claimed; Exemplary Departures offers five particularly important moments for the English reader's delectation. First published as a set of three novellas in 1995, this translation is of the 2012 edition of five novellas, which include the previously unpublished "Mr. T.'s Last Secret" and "Claude and Hippolyte."Release Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: Exemplary Departures

Title: Exemplary Departures

ISBN-10: 193966313X

EAN: 9781939663139

ISBN: 9781939663139

Release Date: 01/07/2016

Release Year: 2016

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Translator: Annette David

Contributor: Annette David (Translated by)

Book Title: Exemplary Departures

Number of Pages: 168 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Topic: Literary

Item Height: 0.5 in

Publication Year: 2015

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 12.8 Oz

Author: Gabrielle Wittkop

Item Length: 9 in

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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