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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher ... a hidden cache of coded clues ... a story written by a phantom author ... an unsolved murder in a gritty urban park - all collide memorably in Emily Arsenault's magnificent debut at once a teasing literary puzzle an ingenious suspense novel and an exploration of definitions: of words of who we are and of the stories we choose to define us.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of Fen. The dictionary doesnt contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending...
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