Ravenous Muse

Ravenous Muse
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publsiher: Random House Value Pub
Total Pages: 135
Release: 1998-02-01
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0517199491

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The Ravenous Muse

The Ravenous Muse
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1996-09-01
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0788167928

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A brilliant & witty collection of writing about food & literature. A highly original & macabre selection -- with a strong Slavic/Balkan flavor -- it's an often surreal look at the whimsical & even comical realm of the pleasures & displeasures of the table. In these pieces, everything from olives to toffee is used to evoke emotions, characters, or events. Whether it's Turgenev on cleaning shoes with bread crumbs, a midnight snack with Rossini, George Sand sleepwalking into breakfast, Balzac succumbing to the fatal attraction of his coffeepot -- the reader will be astonished to see food & its rituals in daring new ways.

The Ravenous Muse

The Ravenous Muse
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publsiher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1996
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: STANFORD:36105019836076

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From the author of The Deluxe Transitive Vampire comes this delightful collection of writings about food, drink, and the art of eating. Drawing on excerpts from more than 50 writers--Barthes, Balzac, Mandelstam, McPhee, Marquez, and Joyce among them--Gordon gives us a funny, surprising, and wonderfully macabre book.

My Dear Mother

My Dear Mother
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon,Holly Johnson
Publsiher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1997-01-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781565127845

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This fascinating collection of letters between sons and mothers offers an intimate and unexpected glimpse into the mind and heart of the artist. Here are letters by over fifty writers, painters, and musicians, from boyhood to manhood--including Elvis Presley, Ezra Pound, E. B. White, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau, Tennessee WIlliams, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publsiher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1993-08-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780679418603

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Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.

The New Well tempered Sentence

The New Well tempered Sentence
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publsiher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0618382011

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The basic rules governing the use of periods, semicolons, hyphens, commas, and other punctuation marks are illustrated by original explanations and humorous sample sentences. Reprint.

The Disheveled Dictionary

The Disheveled Dictionary
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publsiher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0618381961

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Uses imaginative examples to illustrate the meaning of words from abrogate, brouhaha, and cachinnate to susurration, truculence, and voluble.

The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales

The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Publsiher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1564780929

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Best known for her Gothic language handbooks (reissued recently as The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire), Karen Elizabeth Gordon here turns her extraordinary talents to fiction, and the result is as unconventional as her seductive grammar dramas. The Red Shoes consists of tatters of a half-dozen tales ("The Glass Shoe," "The Gingerbread Variations," "The Little Match Girl," "Don Juan Is a Woman," and the title story, among others) sewn together into a novel by two seamstresses. "Fabric, fabrication--such is the stuff of these lost chronicles come together here," Gordon writes in her introduction. "Swinging their hatboxes, swaying their hips, chapters with torn slips wander in on high heels and blistered feet." Looking back to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, but also casting sidelong glances at metafictional sugardaddies like Queneau, Nabokov, Cortazar, Gass, and Milorad Pavic, The Red Shoes is a Rabelaisian romp through the language of sensuality.