Blue Beyond Blue: Extraordinary Tales for Ordinary Dilemmas

by Lauren Slater

Book Overview

Mermaids, seal women, little girls born of eggs, old men born of prematurely aged parents, and other strange creatures populate award-winning author Lauren Slater's stories of magic, psychology, pain, and release. Slater depicts the modern-day psycho-pharmaceutical industry and our ongoing obsession with chemically synthetic solutions, the staleness and surprises embedded in married erotic love, the conflicts in the mother-daughter bond, the universal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393328589
• ISBN13: 9780393328585
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.3"