Pirate Talk or Mermalade: Scientific Advice and Practical Ideas by Terese Svobod

Description: Pirate Talk or Mermalade by Terese Svoboda A gender-bent novel of reluctant pirates, a suicidal mother, and a schoolmarm mermaid that ends in the Arctic. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Pursued by a mermaid, two boys talk their way into pirating and end up in the Arctic where a secret unhinges them both. Disabled piecemeal, harassed by a parrot, marooned on a tree-challenged island, posing as Pilgrims, scrimshawing and singing their way out of prison, the spunky pirates of Pirate Talk or Mermalade defy and indeed eliminate all description: its a novel in voices.The many faces of Terese Svobodas luminous writing include eleven books of poetry, fiction, translation, and over one hundred short stories. Trailer Girl and Other Stories, her third novel, was reissued in paperback last fall. Author Biography Terese Svoboda: The many faces of Svobodas luminous writing include eleven books of poetry, fiction, translation and over 100 short stories. Trailer Girl and Other Stories, her third novel, was reissued in paper last fall. "Unnerve thyself: the violent and enthralling short stories in Trailer Girl detonate on contact," writes Vanity Fair. Her memoir Black Glasses Like Clark Kent was termed "Astounding!" by the New York Post, selected as a Japan Times "Best of Asia 2008" book, and won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Praised as a "fabulous fabulist" by Publishers Weekly for her last novel, Tin God, Vogue lauded her first, Cannibal, as a female Heart of Darkness. Svoboda is also the recipient of the Bobst Prize (for Cannibal), the Iowa Prize for poetry and the O. Henry Award for the short story. Her work has been selected for the "Writers Choice" column in the New York Times Book Review, a SPIN magazine book of the year, and one of the Voice Literary Supplements ten best reads. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.s Disney Hall in 2005. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, Bennington, Davidson, University of Hawaii, U. of Miami, Fairleigh Dickinson, Williams College, San Francisco State College and the College of William and Mary and is teaching fiction this spring at Columbias School of the Arts. Details ISBN0982631804 Author Terese Svoboda Short Title PIRATE TALK OR MERMALADE Publisher Dzanc Books Language English ISBN-10 0982631804 ISBN-13 9780982631805 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Residence Menlo Park, CA, US Year 2010 Publication Date 2010-10-12 Imprint Dzanc Books Subtitle Scientific Advice and Practical Ideas Pages 151 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137994878;

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