Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton

DESCRIPTION From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and SPRAWL comes a collection like no other, where different styles of writing and different spaces of experience create a collage of the depths and strangeness of contemporary life. "Luminous" (The Guardian) and "brilliantly odd" (The Irish Independent), Danielle Dutton's writing is as a protean as it is beguiling. In the four eponymous sections of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other Duttons imagines new models for how literature might work in our fractured times. "Prairie" is a cycle of surreal stories set in the quickly disappearing prairieland of the American Midwest. "Dresses" offers a surprisingly moving portrait of literary fashions. "Art" turns to essay, examining how works of visual art and fiction might relate to one another, a question central to the whole book; while the final section, "Other", includes pieces of irregular ("other") forms, stories-as-essays or essays-as-storie