{"product_id":"9781589880122","title":"Memoirs of a Midget","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry.\"—Rebecca West\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind.\"—Angela Carter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It seems to me a perfect, utterly original novel, and no one but a poet could have written it…The book is totally idiosyncratic and yet there isn't a line you couldn't identify yourself with.\"—Harry Mathews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiss M., the narrator of these fictional memoirs, is a diminutive young woman (though just how diminutive, the author never says) with a \"passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies, and stuffed animals.\" Miss M. tells of her early life as a dreamy orphan and, in particular, of her tempestuous twentieth year—in which she falls in love with a beautiful and ambitious full-sized woman and is courted by a male dwarf. Concluding that she must choose either to simply tolerate her difference or grow callous to it, Miss M. resolves to become independent by offering herself up as a spectacle in a circus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written.\"—Alison Lurie, from her foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"De la Mare's masterpiece…It acts upon the reader like a ghostly visitation, at once unsettling and revelatory.\"— \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Here is a great book.\"— \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sentences, pages, whole chapters cause us to catch our breath.\"— \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"After a long period of neglect de la Mare may be beginning to be seen as the remarkable writer that he is.\"—John Bayley,  \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eWalter de la Mare\u003c\/b\u003e  (1873–1956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Midget\u003c\/i\u003e. Other major works include the children’s novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Three Royal Monkeys\u003c\/i\u003e ,  \u003ci\u003eHenry Brocken\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e. His book \u003ci\u003eDesert Islands\u003c\/i\u003e  is also available from Paul Dry Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlison Lurie \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of many highly praised novels as well as two collections of essays on children’s literature, \u003ci\u003eDon’t Tell the Grown-Ups\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBoys and Girls Forever\u003c\/i\u003e. She has taught children’s literature and folklore at Cornell University for many years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dry, Paul Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060390052080,"sku":"9781589880122","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781589880122_p0.jpg?v=1763809121","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781589880122","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}