Selected from all phases of Kono Taeko's career, these ten stores represent the writer's best work and introduce American readers to a truly original voice and vision. In the title story, the protagonist is unable to construct a satisfying relationship with a man; she loathes girls, and she compulsively buys expensive clothes for little boys so she can watch while they struggle to dress and undress. With the brave, eerie stylistic purity that marks Kono Taeko's voice, her stories present the received notions of freedom, ...
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Selected from all phases of Kono Taeko's career, these ten stores represent the writer's best work and introduce American readers to a truly original voice and vision. In the title story, the protagonist is unable to construct a satisfying relationship with a man; she loathes girls, and she compulsively buys expensive clothes for little boys so she can watch while they struggle to dress and undress. With the brave, eerie stylistic purity that marks Kono Taeko's voice, her stories present the received notions of freedom, love, and normalcy, and turning them like coins, show us their other sides.
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Add this copy of Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories to cart. $101.99, very good condition, Sold by Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newmarket, NH, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by New Directions: NY.
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Very good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, v + 266 pages, gilt spine titles on black cloth. A very good, generally clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear BUT light foxing to the fore-edges, binding solid. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price present.
Add this copy of Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories to cart. $64.23, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Add this copy of Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories to cart. $82.00, poor condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by New Directions.
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Poor. New York. 1996. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0811213056. Translated from the Japanese by Lucy North & Lucy Lower. 266 pages. hardcover. keywords: Asia Japan Literature Translated Women World Literature. DESCRIPTION-A collection of stories written in the 1960s focusing for the most part on middle-class women in their thirties, married, but with no children. Although firmly rooted in the realist tradition, the stories have a surreal, dreamlike quality. Several of them deal with obsession; in the title story, for example, Akiko is repulsed by little girls but obsessed with little boys. In Crabs, Yuko is 91 and consumed with the task of finding a particular kind of crab for her nephew when he comes to visit her at the seaside resort where she is recovering from tuberculosis. Physical pain is another common element; very ordinary objects and activities can also be important signifiers, especially when they are described in such meticulous detail that they become hyperrealistic, like eating oysters on the half shell in Bone Meat. inventory #22051.
Add this copy of Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories to cart. $99.43, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by New Directions.
