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Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee
James Tate
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Description for Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee
paperback. Pulitzer Prize winner James Tate's only collection of short fiction available for the first time in paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
"Fiction lovers who come to this book with an open mind will find themselves challenged and entertained by a brilliant writer with a very fertile imagination."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) "When he turns to prose, this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet exhibits a surprisingly uncomplicated style."-Details James Tate seems both awed and bemused by small-town life in these forty-four stories full of legends, flights of fancy, tragedies, and small ruptures in ordinary existence. His narrators speak in an idiom that is odd and completely American. James Tate is the author of fourteen books of poetry and the recipient of numerous ... Read more
"Fiction lovers who come to this book with an open mind will find themselves challenged and entertained by a brilliant writer with a very fertile imagination."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) "When he turns to prose, this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet exhibits a surprisingly uncomplicated style."-Details James Tate seems both awed and bemused by small-town life in these forty-four stories full of legends, flights of fancy, tragedies, and small ruptures in ordinary existence. His narrators speak in an idiom that is odd and completely American. James Tate is the author of fourteen books of poetry and the recipient of numerous ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wave Books United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9781933517353
SKU
V9781933517353
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About James Tate
James Tate is the author of 14 books of poetry (most recently Return to the City of White Donkeys, 2004), and the recipient of numerous awards: fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundations, the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Dreams of the Robot Dancing Bee is his first collection of stories. He teaches at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. ... Read more
Reviews for Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee
"Like forty-four test tubes, these stories contain a series of meticulously prepared chemistry experiments. . . . Tate, the long-acclaimed poet, uses a disarmingly pedestrian voice to lure the reader to a place of bizarre poignancy. He makes eccentricity look good, as a poet should."
The New Yorker "Fiction lovers who come to this book with an open mind will find ... Read more
The New Yorker "Fiction lovers who come to this book with an open mind will find ... Read more