Bart Moeyaert, Author, David Colmer, Translator Front Street $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-886910-32-4
In this moment-by-moment account of an eventful New Year's Eve day and night, Dutch author Moeyaert convincingly shows the broiling emotions of a country boy. When the story opens, Ward is running through a field with a dead duck in his pocket. His...
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Bart Moeyaert, Author, Wanda Boeke, Translator . Front Street $16.95 (93p) ISBN 978-1-932425-97-0
Spare and disturbing, Belgian author Moeyaert’s (It’s Love We Don’t Understand
) novella makes few concessions to readers. American audiences will be grateful for the jacket copy, which identifies the setting as Belgium in the...
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Bart Moeyaert, Author, Wanda Boeke, Translator, Gerda Dendooven, Other , illus. by Gerda Dendooven, trans. by Wanda J. Boeke. Front Street $16.95 (163p) ISBN 978-1-932425-18-5
The collection of vignettes about the Belgian author's (Bare Hands
) childhood as the youngest of seven brothers, initially serialized in a literary magazine, is a curious offering. The unnamed narrator, keenly aware of his bottom-rung place in...
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Bart Moeyaert, Author, Handprint, Author, David Colmer, Translator Front Street $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-886910-48-5
Opening with a scene of the narrator, Susanna Dantine, being born (she narrates from the womb), Moeyaert's (Bare Hands) novel reads like a convoluted fairy tale, complete with a character named Wolf and a dark wood. Fourteen-year-old Susanna's own...
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Bart Moeyaert, Author, Handprint, Author, Wanda Boeke, Translator , trans. by Wanda Boeke. Front Street $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-886910-71-3
Belgian author Moeyaert (Bare Hands) evokes a variety of moods in three chronologically arranged scenes, narrated by the third of four children, known only as "Sis." These slices of life reveal her feelings about her mother, brother, two...
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