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100 1 $aTuten, Frederic.
245 10 $aSelf portraits :$bfictions /$cFrederic Tuten.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Co.,$cc2010.
300 $a232 p. ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $aVoyagers -- Self portrait with Sicily -- Self portrait with bullfight -- Self portrait with circus -- The park near Marienbad -- Self portrait with cheese -- Self portrait with icebergs -- Self portrait with beach -- The park in winter -- The bar on Tompkins Square Park: self portrait with blue horse -- The park on fire -- The ship at anchor.
520 $aInspired by the stories the author read to his possibly illiterate Sicilian grandmother as a child, these nested narratives are told by couples traveling through hallucinatory, romantic landscapes. As the traveler in "Self Portrait with Sicily" rides a train through the Bronx, boundaries between worlds, geography, and generations blur, transporting him through Sicily and the rural landscape of his Nonna. On a honeymoon in Spain, the narrator of "Self Portrait with Bullfight" decides that "forbearance" is the key to a lasting marriage and proceeds to try the patience of his new bride with a long-winded tale of the "frisson of rivalry" between two youths vying for the attentions of a Gypsy woman. In "Self Portrait with Cheese," an allegory about a family of bears that flees the circus only to languish, bored, in their freedom, offers a convoluted fable about the needs of artists. Tuten's (The Green Hour) polished stories of beauty, longing, and loss are relatable, yet strange enough that they constantly pique--Publisher's Weekly.
650 0 $aShort stories.
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