Research Catalog

Title

Hair side, flesh side / Helen Marshall ; introduction by Robert Shearman ; illustrations by Chris Roberts.

Author

Marshall, Helen, 1983-

Publication

Toronto, ON : ChiZine Publications, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kasturi, Sandra, 1966-

Description

247 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

A child receives the body of Saint Lucia of Syracuse for her seventh birthday. A rebelling angel rewrites the Book of Judgement to protect the woman he loves. A young woman discovers the lost manuscript of Jane Austen written on the inside of her skin. A 747 populated by a dying pantheon makes the extraordinary journey to the beginning of the universe. Lyrical and tender, quirky and cutting, Helen Marshall's exceptional debut collection weaves the fantastic and the horrific alongside the touchingly human in fifteen modern parables about history, memory, and cost of creating art.

Subject

Short stories, Canadian

Genre/Form

• Short stories
• Fantasy fiction.
• Horror tales.
• Short stories.
• Fantasy fiction
• Horror tales
• Science fiction

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Eyelid. Blessed -- Veins. Sandition -- Skin. A texture like velvet -- Teeth. The old and the new -- Hand. No ghosts in London -- Heart. Pieces of broken things -- Stomach. The mouth, open -- Fingernail. Lines of affection -- Wing. In the high places of the world -- Shoulder. Holding pattern -- Knuckle. The book of judgement -- Ribcage. The art of dying -- Thigh. Dead white men -- Breast. Eternal things -- Tailbone. This feeling of flying.

ISBN

9781927469248 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012545619

OCLC

• 798061888
• SCSB-12380935

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library