Faces in the Crowd
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A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence constantly haunts her in the subway-she also relates the slow but inevitable disintegration of her present family life.
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PUBLISHED
Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 146 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781566893541
1566893542
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
MacSweeney, Christina.
SUBJECTS
Women authors -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Mexico City (Mexico) -- Fiction.