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Ривка Голчен – Little Labours (страница 1)

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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017

First published in the United States by New Directions in 2016

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“Notes on Some Twentieth-Century Writers” originally appeared in Harper’s Magazine.

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Source ISBN: 9780008225186

Ebook Edition © October 2016 ISBN: 9780008225193

Version: 2017-04-03

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Head shape

The romantic comedy

Wiped out

The species

Literature has more dogs than babies

More Frankenstein

And movies

Princess Kaguya

Rumpelstiltskin

How the puma affects others, one

How the puma affects others, two

Notes on some twentieth-century writers

Other people’s babies

Other people’s babies, two

Other people’s babies, three

Other people’s babies, four

Reversals

Mother writers

When the baby came home

When the empress moved

Screens

iPhone footage

Lots of writers have children

In Flagstaff, one

In Flagstaff, two

New variety of depression

A baby is an ideal vector for a revenge plot

A modern anxiety

Things that one was misleadingly told were a big part of having a baby

Babies in art