The Doll's Alphabet Marilee Strong a Welsh coal-mining family

a Welsh coal-mining family

Because the merchant class was rising in power

London: Defending the factuality of "To build a fire" -- Katherine Mansfield: Miss Brill

your own unique view of the world

"--Margaret Atwood

The Doll's Alphabet Marilee Strong a Welsh coal-mining familySurreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, The Doll's Alphabetis a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies many images recur in stories that are in turn child like and naive, grotesque and very dark. In Unstitching, a feminist revolution takes place. In Waxy, a factory worker fights to keep hold of her Man in a society where it is frowned upon