![]() ![]() Where hunger could drive a bobcat to almost attack two children, or, decades later, send a grown woman with an ax out of her farmhouse to butcher the reindeer she may or may not be hallucinating. ![]() Where death might also be found in a hermit and his woman, discovered frozen and kneeling, side by side in the woods. Dickinson brings all of her powers of compassion, an eye to detail, and her ability to look unflinchingly at suffering and uses them to conjure scenes of incredible poignancy and power: the pre-antibiotic world that Emily lived much of her life in, where diphtheria, scarlet fever, and whooping cough could take the life of one's best friend in a day, or five of one's classmates in a night. "Set on the Iowa prairie, THE EMILY FABLES is Stephanie Emily Dickinson's homage to a lost world. ![]()
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