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The devil, a ghost, a doppelganger, a selkie, a hobgoblin – these creatures appear in Marianne Micros's Statue, a collection of tales which combine traditional and ancient elements with contemporary issues and experiences. These fifteen stories show that the boundaries between fantasy and reality, art and life, life and death are fragile and inconstant. Micros seamlessly combines magic with the realities of daily life, showing the interrelationship of the natural and the supernatural and the significance of those interactions.
The devil, a ghost, a doppelganger, a selkie, a hobgoblin – these creatures appear in Marianne Micros's Statue, a collection of tales which combine traditional and ancient elements with contemporary issues and experiences. These fifteen stories show that the boundaries between fantasy and reality...
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Marianne Micros's latest publication is the short-story collection Statue (Guernica 2023). Her previous book Eye (Guernica, 2018) was a finalist in 2019 for both the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Danuta Gleed Award. Her publications include Upstairs Over the Ice Cream (Ergo, 1979) and Seventeen Trees (Guernica, 2007).
Marianne Micros's latest publication is the short-story collection Statue (Guernica 2023). Her previous book Eye (Guernica, 2018) was a finalist in 2019 for both the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Danuta Gleed Award. Her publications include Upstairs Over the Ice Cream (Erg...
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