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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807028803321

Titolo

The bed book of short stories / / compiled by Lauri Kubuitsile; edited by Joanne Hichens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athlone, South Africa, : Modjajj Books, c2010

ISBN

1-920397-29-9

1-282-71085-0

9786612710858

1-920397-77-9

1-920397-30-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KubuitsileLauri

HichensJoanne

Disciplina

823.0108968

Soggetti

Short stories, African (English)

African fiction (English)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Making the Bed; Bedrock; In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata; Desire, with Borders; Stains Like a Map; Sleeping through Heartbreak; A Natural Combination; The Artful Craft of Quilting; The Capable Wife; Lie Still Heart: Scenes from a Girlhood Devoured; Every Picture Tells ...; To Own a Bed; A Requiem for Daniel; Lena My Lovely; Heaven (or Something Like It); Crazy; Hunters and Lovers; On a Broomstick; Nompumelelo Sinxoto's Bed; Imagining Monsters; The Outsider; Chickens and the Clinking of Glass; Fool's Gold; In Sickness

Wings on Indi's PillowHow to Write a Good Romance; In Bed with Ikeji; Portrait of a Woman in Bed; Mary, Mary; Made of Mukwa; Goodnight, Sleep Tight; Divine Possibilities, Rewards Uncertain; Author Biographies; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

The bed, dressed in hand sewn quilt or threadbare blanket, may in and of itself be memorable, but it is what happens in the bed ñ the sex and lovemaking, the dreams, the reading, the nightmares, the rest, giving birth and dying ñ which give ëbedí special meaning. Whether a bed is



shared with a book, a child, a pet or a partner, whether lovers lie in ecstasy or indifference, whether ëbedí relates to intimacy or betrayal, it is memories and recollections of ëbedí, in whatever form, which have triggered the writing of these thirty stories by women from southern Africa. Well known writers Joanne F