
Little Book of Days
Nona Caspers(Author)
Spuyten Duyvil (Publisher)
Published on 1. February 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-1-933132-69-3 (ISBN)
Description
Nona Caspers' Little Book of Days accretes like a pearl, layer upon layer, around her evocation of experience through language. The perfect beauty of her record of daily living will call out to you, and make you want to write back, to cohabit the form she has so radiantly informed. Seize the day-Nona Caspers has, and transformed it into music.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
189 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-933132-69-3 (9781933132693)
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Nona Caspers is the author of The Fifth Woman, a Novel in Stories (Sarabande Books, 2018), selected by Stacy D'erasmo for the Mary McCarthy award. The story, "Frontiers," was originally published in Cimarron Review and was selected by Best American Short Stories as a "Distinguished Story of 2016." Caspers' other books of fiction include Heavier Than Air (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008), awarded the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and listed as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and Little Book of Days (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009). In 2013 she co-edited with Joell Hallowell a book of oral histories, Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century. Her work has been supported by a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant, Barbara Deming Memorial Grant and Award, a LAMBDA Literary Award nomination, and the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award.