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Natural Histories

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Natural Histories

By Guadalupe Nettel

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About the book

Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein ...Show more

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9781609806057

Publisher

Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Published year

2015

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1

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Natural Histories

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Paperback

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