Carol Emshwiller

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Verging on the Pertinent This 1989 collection of stories is spare in style but rich in imagination. Emshwiller tries to minimize character, plot, dialogue, and many other conventionalities of storytelling; there's something Kafka-esque in her largely first-person tales of a woman deserting her husband to live in a cave with a bear ("Yukon"), a goddess creating the perfect man to worship her ("If Not Forever, When?"), or human females finding themselves making do in an alien cult...	View these reviews in summary mode Carol Emshwiller Message Board Talk about the novels, new and used books that Emshwiller has written!