Last Vanities: Stories

by Fleur Jaeggy

"Reading time is approximately four hours. Remembering time, as for its author, the rest of one's life," said Joseph Brodsky of Fleur Jaeggy's novel, Sweet Days of Displine. Now Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, all as terse and spare as if etched with a steel tip. A brooding atmosphere of horror, a disturbing and subversive propensity for delirium haunts the violent gestures and chilly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811213749
• ISBN13: 9780811213745
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"