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      Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych

      by Joanna Ruocco
      Published
      Mar 2012
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      168
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      Stark and vibrant, the two halves of this sutured book expose the Frankenstein-like scars of the assemblage we call "human."
       
      In "Another Governess" a woman in a decaying manor tries to piece together her own story. In "The Least Blacksmith" a man cannot help but fail his older brother as they struggle to run their father's forge. 
       
      Each of the stories stands alone, sharing neither characters nor settings. But together, they ask the same question: What are the wages of being? The relentless darkness of these tales is punctured by hope—the violent hope of the speaking subject.

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      General Fiction

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      Literary

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      Mar 2012 F2c ISBN 1573661651
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      Mar 2012 University of Alabama Press ISBN B0089NX9G2
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