The Doll's Alphabet

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Short stories from an unholy marriage of Angela Carter, Sheila Hetiand H. P. Lovecraft. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original and absolutely discomfiting. The stories inThe Doll's Alphabetare simultaneously childlike and naive, grotesque and very dark. (From Coach House Books)

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