Self Portraits: Fictions

by Frederic Tuten

Book Overview

Fantasy and reality collide as the book s principal characters two lovers meet, part, and reunite, time and again, at different stages in life and in landscapes both familiar and exotic. Death appears as a genial waiter in a cafe across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; talking circus elephants console a ringmaster for his unrequited love; a young boy barters with pirates for his grandmother s soul; and as a refrigerator begins spilling mini-glaciers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393079058
• ISBN13: 9780393079050
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 8.7"