Murderers I Have Known
  • Published: 1 January 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099428374
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $25.00

Murderers I Have Known

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'The stories are all sharp and strange...[this is] a book about now written with a far-sighted and relentless intelligence' - Ali Smith, Guardian

Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear.

In 'Natural Limits', a bereaved woman, contemplating the massacre of 11,000 virgins, comes to terms with the unimaginable. The title story and 'Canary' search for signs of evil or innocence written on the body. The 'Insomniac Princess' finds that unheard melodies are indeed sweeter; whereas other stories give voice to the traditionally voiceless - the artist's model and the film double.

Here are fabulous images of saints and sinners, bats and nightingales, pink flesh and putrefaction in an electrifying new collection.
  • Published: 1 January 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099428374
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $25.00
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Praise for Murderers I Have Known

Warner writes with the delicacy of a tightrope walker...the result is exhilarating

Financial Times

A fine sheen of intelligent humour...acute and alive

Sunday Times

Exhilarating

Sunday Telegraph

Reminiscent of AS Byatt's short stories, Marina Warner's tales glimmer with the cerebral pickings of a true culture vulture

Independent

Sparkles with her inimitable and sophisticated style. These tales, both crisp and lyrical, form a cosmopolitan mixture of art history, magic, fairytale and urban myth

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