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The Mothering Coven
Fiction. Mapping a utopia on the brink, THE MOTHERING COVEN's rare blend of charisma and pyrotechnic wordplay makes for an utterly original act of storytelling. Bertrand has disappeared from the house she shared with seven women--artists, scientists, and of course, witches. As the women plan a party for Mrs. Borage's hundredth birthday, Bertrand's absence threatens to diss...more
Paperback, 123 pages
Published
October 15th 2009
by Ellipsis Press
(first published 2009)
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somehow with none of the ego-fluffing look-at-me posturing, it combines the virtuosic vocabulary of a george perec with the referential knowledge of a PHd student in Pagan Studies all written with a style all her own but as iconoclastic and rhythmic as david markson. hopeful and smart. and all brand new. and you should most definitely try it.
"Ruocco’s Coven is an engagingly whimsical tale, graceful and inventive, with its own distinctive lexicon, reminiscent of the works of such...more
"Ruocco’s Coven is an engagingly whimsical tale, graceful and inventive, with its own distinctive lexicon, reminiscent of the works of such...more
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"The hospitaltiy industry is not more interesting than paleozoology, says Agnes, but at least I don't have a degree in it."
"Mr. Henderson has made a little pile of clay into a little pile of clay."
"Fiona eats raisin after raisin in the kitchen, but she still looks wilted."
"Mrs. Borage likes the smell of the odorizing agents. They smell like cabbage."
"Luckily, Ms. Kidney is heaving metal buckets of frosty sch...more
"The hospitaltiy industry is not more interesting than paleozoology, says Agnes, but at least I don't have a degree in it."
"Mr. Henderson has made a little pile of clay into a little pile of clay."
"Fiona eats raisin after raisin in the kitchen, but she still looks wilted."
"Mrs. Borage likes the smell of the odorizing agents. They smell like cabbage."
"Luckily, Ms. Kidney is heaving metal buckets of frosty sch...more
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