The Archive of Alternate Endings

Captivating...Drager's plot is ambitious and emotionally resonant, making for a clever, beguiling novel. --Publishers Weekly starred review...
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Author: Lindsey Drager
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Language: English
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The Archive of Alternate Endings by Drager, Lindsey

The Archive of Alternate Endings

Dhs. 77.23

The Archive of Alternate Endings

Dhs. 77.23
Author: Lindsey Drager
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Captivating...Drager's plot is ambitious and emotionally resonant, making for a clever, beguiling novel. --Publishers Weekly starred review
Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth's visits by Halley's Comet, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores how stories are disseminated and shared, edited and censored, voiced and left untold.

In 1456, Johannes Gutenberg's sister uses the tale as a surrogate for sharing a family secret only her brother believes. In 1835, The Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm revise the tale to bury a truth about Jacob even he can't come to face. In 1986, a folklore scholar and her brother come to find the record is wrong about the figurative witch in the woods, while in 2211, twin space probes aiming to find earth's sister planet disseminate the narrative in binary code. Breadcrumbing back in time from 2365 to 1378, siblings reimagine, reinvent, and recycle the narrative of Hansel and Gretel to articulate personal, regional, and ultimately cosmic experiences of tragedy.

Through a relay of speculative pieces that oscillate between eco-fiction and psychological horror, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores sibling love in the face of trauma over the course of a millennium, in the vein of Richard McGuire's Here and Lars von Trier's Melancholia.

Author: Lindsey Drager
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 05/07/2019
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781945814822


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 04/08/2019

About the Author
Drager, Lindsey: - Lindsey Drager is the author of The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), winner of the 2016 Binghamton University / John Gardner Fiction Award, and The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017), winner of a 2017 Shirley Jackson Award and finalist for at Lambda Literary Award. She is an assistant professor at the College of Charleston.

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