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Women and clothes /

Women and Clothes (Die Kleider der Frauen, 2009), a collection of stories arranged chronologically around a single unifying motif, has been praised by critics as a wonderful and surprising novel. The stories are deeply anchored in society while mirroring its constant flux and the ways in which cloth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kronauer, Brigitte, 1940-
Other Authors: Ittner, Jutta
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the German.
Published: Austin, TX : Host Publications, [2011]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Women's clothing > Fiction.
Clothing and dress > Fiction.
Clothing and dress.
Women's clothing.
Fiction.
Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945.
Short stories.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mrs. John is coming!
  • In the dark
  • Little dogs on their leashes
  • Nightgowns
  • Aunt Fritzi in white
  • Susanna in the bath
  • Ironing 1
  • Ironing 2
  • Catastrophe
  • Miss Welziegn in the realm of the fish
  • Fourteen
  • Saturday night
  • Spring
  • Gadowski, Gadowski's girlfriend
  • Polka-dot dress
  • Last husband
  • President's cleaning lady
  • Cow
  • Annegret
  • Curse
  • Barbecue
  • High mountains
  • 'Why are my brothers mourning?"
  • Who is she really?
  • Crows
  • There he goes
  • Jumping to conclusions: An afterword.