boysgirls

A host of characters emerge from a madwoman's dreams, populating a world as strange and magnificent as a painting by Hieronymous Bosch. A boy with one wing seeks the secret to flight. A girl with a mirror for a face, adored by all, longs to simply eat. A pregnant girl reflects on the effects of metamorphoses. The stories of boysgirls are modern myths: tales that exist within our present time but also outside it, in a place as eternal as Shangri-La or Middle Earth. An unforgettable book of Ovidian imagination, boysgirls testifies that Katie Farris is one of the most talented prose stylists of a new generation. "boysgirls is one for the classic fairy-tale shelves, joining Borges/Lispector, Calvino/Carter, Andersen/d'Aulnoy with its spectral powers. Katie Farris's spare and lyrical language levitates here — she is a haunting and new revelation" — Kate Bernheimer.

• Author
• Katie Farris

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 76

• Publisher
• Marick Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781934851302

• Genres
• poetry, fiction, fantasy, literature

• Release date
• 2011