Murderers I Have Known
Author: Warner, Marina
ISBN: 9780099428374
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Jan 2004
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
'The stories are all sharp and strange... this is a book about now written with a far-sighted and relentless intelligence' - Ali Smith, Guardian
Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear.
In 'Natural Limits', a bereaved woman, contemplating the massacre of 11,000 virgins, comes to terms with the unimaginable. The title story and 'Canary' search for signs of evil or innocence written on the body. The 'Insomniac Princess' finds that unheard melodies are indeed sweeter; whereas other stories give voice to the traditionally voiceless - the artist's model and the film double.
Here are fabulous images of saints and sinners, bats and nightingales, pink flesh and putrefaction in an electrifying new collection.
ISBN: 9780099428374
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Jan 2004
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
'The stories are all sharp and strange... this is a book about now written with a far-sighted and relentless intelligence' - Ali Smith, Guardian
Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear.
In 'Natural Limits', a bereaved woman, contemplating the massacre of 11,000 virgins, comes to terms with the unimaginable. The title story and 'Canary' search for signs of evil or innocence written on the body. The 'Insomniac Princess' finds that unheard melodies are indeed sweeter; whereas other stories give voice to the traditionally voiceless - the artist's model and the film double.
Here are fabulous images of saints and sinners, bats and nightingales, pink flesh and putrefaction in an electrifying new collection.
