The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits  -  Emma Donoghue

KORTE INHOUD

The 'Woman who gave birth to rabbits', a wonderful book of fictions that are also true, is named Mary Toft, who, in 1726, managed to convince half England that she's laboured and had done just that.
Resurrecting buried scandals, audacious hoaxes and private tragedies, Emma Donoghue has written a sequence of short stories about peculiar moments in the history of the British Isles. Here artists mix with poisoners and countesses rub shoulders with cross-dressers, vicars and revolutionaries. Fiery Irish poteen ...
2002 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2002 Uitgever: Virago 212 paginas Taal: Engels