Barren Island

Carol Zoref

earliest edition we have, 2017 Tantor Audio, 2018 audiobook

New Issues Poetry & Prose

"How does one remember a world that literally no longer exists? How do the moral imperatives to do so correspond to the personal needs that make it possible? Told from the point-of-view of Marta Eisenstein Lane on the occasion of her 80th birthday, Barren Island is the story of a factory island in New York's Jamaica Bay, where the city's dead horses and other large animals were rendered into glue and fertilizer from...

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Barren Island audiobook · 2021 · Tantor and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781665232180
Barren Island audiobook · 2018 · Tantor Audio · 9781977354617
Barren Island edition · 2017 · New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University · 9781936970568
Barren Island edition · 2017 · New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University · 415 pages · 9781936970445

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