Faces in the Crowd
Valeria Luiselli, Armando Duran, Roxanne Hernandez, Christina Macsweeney · 2014
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About the book
A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence constantly haunts her in the subway-she also relates the slow but inevitable disintegration of her present family life.
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Editions
- 8
- Pages
- 146
- ISBN
- 9781566893541
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