| The Odditorium: Stories Contributor(s): Pritchard, Melissa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1934137375 ISBN-13: 9781934137376 Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011026357 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.65 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "A writer at the height of her powers." ―Oprah.com In each of these eight lyrical and baroque tales, Melissa Pritchard transports readers into spine-tingling milieus that range from the astounding realm of Robert LeRoy Ripley's "odditoriums" to the courtyard where Edgar Allan Poe once played as a child. Whether she is setting the famed figures of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, including Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull, against the real, genocidal history of the American West, or contrasting the luxurious hotel where British writer Somerset Maugham stayed with the modern-day brothels of India, her stories illuminate the many ways history and architecture exert powerful forces upon human consciousness. Melissa Pritchard is the author of the novel Palmerino, the short story collection The Odditorium, and the essay collection A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write, among other books. Emeritus Professor of English and Women's Studies at Arizona State University, she now lives in Columbus, Georgia. |