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a set of three novellas in 1995, this translation is of the 2012 edition of five novellas, which include the previously unpublished "Mr.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