{
"item_title" : "The World and Other Places",
"item_author" : [" Jeanette Winterson "],
"item_description" : "With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises.",
"item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/37/570/236/0375702369_b.jpg",
"price_data" : {
"retail_price" : "19.00", "online_price" : "19.00", "our_price" : "19.00", "club_price" : "19.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : ""
}
}
The World and Other Places : Stories
Other Available Formats
Overview
With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises.
Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780375702365
- ISBN-10: 0375702369
- Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
- Publish Date: June 2000
- Dimensions: 7.86 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.57 pounds
- Page Count: 240
Related Categories
