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      The Green and Purple Skin of the World

      by Paulo da Costa
      Published
      Apr 2013
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      208
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      "In any skin purple is a heavy tone that penetrates to the core." paulo da costa's stories get under your skin, bruise your consciousness with their exploration of the forces that hold us together, not always benignly, and those that pull us apart. A hunter and cougar ponder the positions of predator and prey under the dense canopy of a West Coast forest. A nine-year-old girl tells her stuffed rabbit, Carrot, that it's not as easy to run away as she thought, especially when she suspects someone is following her. Like the bubbles that the character in the title story blows while witnessing the dissolution of a love affair, these stories dazzle and beguile: with their craft, their often dark humour, their grasp of people living the extremity that is daily life.

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      General Fiction

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      Literary

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      First Edition Apr 2013 Broadview Press ISBN13 9781554811397 ISBN10 1554811392
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      Mar 2013 Freehand ISBN10 B00CHAFIVM
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      Mar 2013 Broadview Press ISBN13 9781460402238 ISBN10 1460402235
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