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Taking What I Like : Stories Paperback - 2013
by Linda Bamber
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- Good
- Paperback
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- Title Taking What I Like : Stories
- Author Linda Bamber
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Godine Publisher, David R.
- Date 2013
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1574232231I3N00
- ISBN 9781574232233 / 1574232231
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9.08 x 6.07 x 0.68 in (23.06 x 15.42 x 1.73 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012033952
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
From the jacket flap
Linda Bamber has combined her love of fiction from the past with her propensity to shake things up, taking what she likes and gleefully sharing it with us. As entertaining and contemporary as these stories are, they also remind us what we, too, love about the classic texts she takes apart and reassembles. Bamber's tales, like the best translations, exist independently while reminding us not to forget the plays and novels they treat. Alternating between admiration and attitude, the stories layer their plots with commentary, history, and politics, pausing as they build only to make room for the sanity and wit of the authorial voice. Emotional and genuine, these stories are also playful, inventive, and hilariously funny. From her long study of the Bard, Bamber has absorbed some of Shakespeare's own empathy, understanding, and expressive flair. It is not too much to say that her work takes its place in the same literary sphere as the works it engages.
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 05/13/2013, Page 0