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050 00 $aPL862.A42146$bR613 2004
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100 1 $aTakahashi, Takako,$d1932-2013.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93030869
240 10 $aRonrī ūman.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003061173
245 10 $aLonely woman /$cTakahashi Takako ; introduced and translated by Maryellen Toman Mori.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axxxix, 155 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aWeatherhead books on Asia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [149]-155).
505 00 $tLonely Woman -- $tThe Oracle -- $tFoxfire -- $tThe Suspended Bridge -- $tStrange Bonds.
520 1 $a"The five individually titled short stories that constitute Lonely Woman are linked by certain characters, themes, and plot elements. In the first story, "Lonely Woman," a series of arson incidents in her neighborhood causes a nihilistic young woman to become fascinated with the psychology of the person who perpetrated the crimes. Her fantasies of the euphoric pleasure of setting a fire heighten her awareness of her own violent tendencies. "The Oracle" portrays a young widow who becomes convinced, through several disturbing dreams, that her late husband was unfaithful to her. She devises a cruel, ritualistic act as a strategy for defusing her sense of helpless rage. In "Foxfire," a store clerk has a series of encounters with sly, seductive youngsters and is revitalized by her discovery of the criminal and sexual impulses that lurk beneath their innocent facades. In "The Suspended Bridge," a bored housewife's passion is rekindled when a man with whom she once had a sadomasochistic relationship reenters her life. "Strange Affinities" treats crime, madness, and amour fou as catalysts of a process of spiritual enlightenment: an old woman searches for an elusive man who seems to embody the bliss of self-renunciation."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWomen$zJapan$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119078
700 1 $aMori, Maryellen Toman.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96024364
830 0 $aWeatherhead books on Asia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002008046
852 00 $beal$hPL862.A42146$iR613 2004
852 00 $boff,glx$hPL862.A42146$iR613 2004