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    Title
    Another Governess / the Least Blacksmith
    Subtitle
    A Diptych
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Joanna Ruocco, Foreword by Ben Marcus
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 168
    Width: 140 mm
    Height: 216 mm
    Thickness: 15 mm
    Weight: 400 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781573661652
    ISBN 10: 1573661651
    Classifications
    Dewey: 813/.6
    BISAC category code: FIC000000
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F1.1
    BICMainSubject: FA
    Dewey: FIC
    Dewey: 813.6
    BISAC category code: FIC019000
    Publisher
    Fiction Collective Two
    Imprint name
    Fiction Collective Two
    Publication date
    15 May 2012
    Publication City/Country
    Normal/US
    Main description
    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.
    Review quote
    "Joanna Ruocco is very funny and very serious and very smart and very curious and very good at making stories that map the unmappable wrinkles of the mind. "Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith" confirms Ruocco's major talent and takes it a step further. What a pleasure to read her work, to revel in it."--Laird Hunt, author of "The Impossibly"