Blue Beyond Blue - Lauren Slater

Blue Beyond Blue

Extraordinary Tales for Ordinary Dilemmas

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Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2006
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-32858-5 (ISBN)
14,35 inkl. MwSt
An exploration of contemporary family dynamics, moral conundrums, and romantic love through one of our oldest literary forms the fairy tale. "Inspired and barbed, Slater's fairy tales are irresistible." --Donna Seaman, Booklist
Mermaids, seal women, little girls born of eggs, old men born of prematurely aged parents, and other strange creatures populate award-winning author Lauren Slater's stories of magic, psychology, pain, and release. Slater depicts the modern-day psycho-pharmaceutical industry and our ongoing obsession with chemically synthetic solutions, the staleness and surprises embedded in married erotic love, the conflicts in the mother-daughter bond, the universal struggle with dependency and addiction, and more. In addition, she explicitly and implicitly explores the value that fairy tales and fables still have in our culture as tools of healing and illumination.

"World-weary grown-ups will find Slater's tales delightfully wry" (Amanda Heller, Boston Sunday Globe) as she successfully combines her skills as a storyteller and her profound knowledge of psychology to create a bizarre world that is also hauntingly familiar. Daring and absurd, poignant and disturbing, these stories are beautifully written and will enchant and edify adult readers forever after.

Lauren Slater is a psychologist and writer. She is the author of Opening Skinner's Box and Blue Beyond Blue, among other books. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.8.2006
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 211 mm
Gewicht 207 g
Themenwelt Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
Sonstiges Geschenkbücher
ISBN-10 0-393-32858-9 / 0393328589
ISBN-13 978-0-393-32858-5 / 9780393328585
Zustand Neuware
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