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Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home
Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things A Memoir of Love Loss and Coming Home
Author: Amy Dickinson
In STRANGERS TEND TO TELL ME THINGS--her follow-up memoir to the NYT bestselling The Mighty Queens of Freeville--America's most popular advice columnist, "Ask Amy," shares her journey of family, second chances, and finding love. — By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated advice column, Amy Dickinson reveals much of the inspiration and motiva...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780316352642
ISBN-10: 0316352640
Publication Date: 3/14/2017
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Hachette Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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Scandinavian/Celtic myth-influenced tale.
The trilogy reminded me rather a lot of A.A. Attanasio's Arthurian fiction - a comparison I haven't seen elsewhere, but that I nonetheless feel is rather apt.
They take an unusual view of myth, playing with time and reality...
The first book, Yearwood, with its giants, heroes and witches could almost be straight from the Mabinogion. The second, Undersea, is more experimental, playing with multitudes of identities and the concepts related to how mythological figures and gods can be conflated over time.
The third, Winterking, is strikingly different - but, I thought, more entertaining - moving the characters and concepts into an alternate American of indeterminate (but more modern) time. An immortal man conspires to keep him immortality secret, while pursued by the keepers of his fortune, the women who may love him, and the god of death himself....


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