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Format: Paperback, Paperback
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: Dec 2002
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Retail Price: $18.99
Pages: 168
As they exist, new stories and old, these seem as perfect, and as functional for all their beauty, as spider webs. Indeed they were made for a like purpose: to trap and dissect living morsels in the form of palpitating moments of time, instantaneous perceptions, those brief visions of others which give us when captured--breathing, even struggling and so betraying themselves--an illusion of life. The extreme beauty of her writing is due greatly to one fact, that the imprisonment of life in the word was as much a matter of the senses with Virginia Woolf as it was a concern of the intellect.