Books by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and Complete Book Reviews

The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales
The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales
Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Author Dalkey Archive Press $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56478-092-8
Is a dress the same dress if you change the buttons, make the cuffs into a collar and slash the hem from ankle to thigh? A similar question could be asked of Gordon (The Deluxe Transitive Vampire). She has taken her 1989 Intimate Apparel: A...
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Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative
Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative
Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Author Pantheon Books $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-40198-5
Returning to the fertile lexicophilia of The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, Gordon's deeply wacky, sometimes frustrating chronicle of a made-up Balkan state takes the form of a grammar-and-usage guide. The ""dictionarrative"" opens with a list of...
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Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide
Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide
Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Karen Elizabeth, Author Chronicle Books $22.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0969-6
The conceit behind this playful, charming spoof of a book is as simple and bizarre as a Magritte painting: it is a guide to an imaginary Paris, complete with fake hotel listings, off-the-wall travel advice and restaurant recommendations that aim...
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