A wild novel navigating between fiction and reality. The main characters: two young women, the narrator, a dancer who no longer dances but whose body is still haunted by the movements of dance, and her soulmate Emile, who recovers from sudden death syndrome. They share the painful experience of having been raped. A third character, whom they call The Little Girl at the End of the Lane, an odd girl obsessed with wordsher own and of the writers she finds meaningfulwill draw them out of their state of painful helplessness. The ...
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A wild novel navigating between fiction and reality. The main characters: two young women, the narrator, a dancer who no longer dances but whose body is still haunted by the movements of dance, and her soulmate Emile, who recovers from sudden death syndrome. They share the painful experience of having been raped. A third character, whom they call The Little Girl at the End of the Lane, an odd girl obsessed with wordsher own and of the writers she finds meaningfulwill draw them out of their state of painful helplessness. The trio will take back the night, determined not to let the barbarian kings who rule society cut [their] nerves . "We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm "(a line from a poem by a nineteenth-century American anarchist woman) is about rape, dance, radical politics (particularly anarcho-feminism), repression (overt and subtle), revolt, madness . . . A revolutionary tale told in poetic prose, it is also a cautionary taleas one critic said, its subject could be: On the danger of not going far enough, for birds of the feminine sex. "
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New. Tells a story that centers on two young women: Voltairine, a dancer who no longer dances but whose body is still haunted by the movement of dance, and her soulmate Emile, a young woman recovering from unexpected cardiac arrest. The girls are inseparable, and both their lives have been shattered by the horror of rape. Translator(s): Ball, David; Ball, Nicole. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 230 x 32. Weight in Grams: 678. 2014. Translation. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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