The Body in Four Parts

by Janet Kauffman

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555971792
• ISBN13: 9781555971793
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Eloquent and magical.

This small novel displays a new vision of language to describe human nature. It is highly readable - one is seduce by the simple beauty of Janet Kaufman's prose. The central character is a woman, and in her multiplicity of selves she is air, earth, water and fire. The language meanders slowly and gently like the barely-noticed tributaries of a small stream. There is delight in every image, as physicality is restored to language, and "lost geographies" are recovered