The Doll's Alphabet Marilee Strong Successfully evokes the careful

Successfully evokes the careful

London: Defending the factuality of "To build a fire" -- Katherine Mansfield: Miss Brill

"--Margaret Atwood

As the story builds to its stunning conclusion

The Doll's Alphabet Marilee Strong Successfully evokes the carefulSurreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, The Doll's Alphabetis a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies many images recur in stories that are in turn child like and naive, grotesque and very dark. In Unstitching, a feminist revolution takes place. In Waxy, a factory worker fights to keep hold of her Man in a society where it is frowned upon