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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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text file |
Contents |
Contents; 1. The Ropemaker's Daughter; 2. Ablution in Helical Structure; 3. The Green Door; 4. John's Day; 5. The Snow Pageant; 6. Mercury. |
Summary |
Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn's The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic. At the novel's heart are the John's Day celebration and the interactions of a small community dealing with a mystery disease. Routinely citizens are quarantined and then reintegrated into society in rituals marked by a haunting brutality. The infected and the healthy alike are quarantined. In a culture that has retreated from urbanism into a more pastoral society, the woman who nurtures spiders and the man who spins hemp exist alongside the. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Plague -- Fiction.
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Plague. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Subject |
Social problems -- Fiction.
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Social problems. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Conn, Brian. Fixed Stars : Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, ©2010 9781573661539 |
ISBN |
9781573668163 (electronic book) |
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1573668168 (electronic book) |
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