The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter - Softcover

Rosmarie Waldrop

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9780810118348: The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter

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ISBN 10: 0810118343 ISBN 13: 9780810118348

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2001

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These two novels explore the themes of physical and emotional exile and ""between-ness"". In the first, the narrator writes to her sister, trying to come to terms with her ancestry and with what her parents did in Nazi Germany. The second is set in Mexico City and explores a web of disparate ideas.

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"Readers will find in this ambitious, at times brilliant fiction a passionate articulation of a painful and guilt-ridden memory." --New York Times Book Review
"It is not the least of Waldrop's talents that she is very, very funny, and she sharpens her black humor to a knifelike edge that makes the punchlines hurt . . . [The Hanky of Pippen's Daughter] is stunning, an incisive portrayal of the proposition that the history of lies is the vital task of history itself." --Village Voice
"Rosmarie Waldrop's haunting, superbly intelligent, evocative and strange, reverberates in the memory for a long time, a song for the dead, a judgment."

--Angela Carter, author of The Magic Toyshop

About the Author:

Rosemarie Waldrop has published poetry, fiction, and literary theory. Her works include the poetry collections Reluctant Gravities, Split Infinites, and Another Language: Selected Poems and translations of Edmond Jabes's work, including A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book and The Book of Questions. Waldrop lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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