A young American traveler in Belize has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In The Dreaming Girl, Roberta Allen’s exquisite and inc...
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Jul 20, 2011
Eugene
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"Roberta Allen transmits the pain and compensating strangeness of living in vignettes as urgent and enigmatic as telegrams." —John Ashbery
"A choral work where there are endless variations on the same theme, each beautifully developed… The girl’s jungle is not some Henri Rousseau sketch conjured second-hand after an afternoon spent at the Jardin de Plants. Rather it has the precision of field notes written by a solipsistic ecologist." —Mary Mackey, The American Boo More...
"A choral work where there are endless variations on the same theme, each beautifully developed… The girl’s jungle is not some Henri Rousseau sketch conjured second-hand after an afternoon spent at the Jardin de Plants. Rather it has the precision of field notes written by a solipsistic ecologist." —Mary Mackey, The American Boo More...
May 18, 2010
Roberta
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This out-of-print novel is being re-published by Ellipsis Press 2011.
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