pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: DOLLY CITY
By: Orly Castel-Bloom, Dalya Bilu (Trans)
Format: Paperback

List price: £9.99
Our price: £8.24
Discount:
17.5% off
You save: £1.75
ISBN 10: 1564786102
ISBN 13: 9781564786104
Availability: Reprinting. This item may be subject to delays or cancellation.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
Pub. date: 5 October, 2010
Series: Hebrew Literature Series
Pages: 176
Synopsis: "Dolly City--a city without a base, without a past, without an infrastructure. The most demented city in the world." In the midst of a futuristic-primitive metropolis, the accumulation of all our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the University of Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black plastic bag, and decides to become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly dispenses with her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her surgical passion onto her son, who she names "Son." Ceaselessly cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of the all-too-familiar Jewish Mother, forever operating upon her son with destructive, invasive love. In this grotesque satire of war and the defensive measures taken to survive it, Orly Castel-Bloom, one of Israel's most provocative and original writers, turns her own scalpel upon that most holy of institutions, the myth of motherhood--and its implications in the work of a nation. Gruesome, irreverent, and hilarious, Dolly City is widely recognized as one of the most disconcerting--and brilliant--works ever written in Hebrew.
Publication: US
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
The Handmaid's Tale (Paperback)
Vintage Publishing
Our Price : £7.29
more details
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £6.56
more details
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
Faber & Faber
Our Price : £7.29
more details
It Ends With Us (Paperback)
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Our Price : £7.29
more details
The Vegetarian (Paperback)
Granta Books
Our Price : £7.29
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 FICTION
 general & literary fiction
 modern fiction


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 






Early Learning
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB) Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
add to basket

Early Learning
add to basket

Picture Book
All the Things We Carry PB What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
add to basket