In the jaws of life

Dubravka Ugrešić

Original title: Lend me your character

earliest edition we have, 1992 Dalkey Archive Press, 2005 246 pages

Writings from an unbound Europe

"This is the first American publication of three works by one of Eastern Europe's most original and inventive writers. Dubravka Ugresic's In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories collects two short novels and a group of short stories grounded in fact and informed by fancy. The title novel, Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life, charts the life of a typist for a lonely hearts column. Laid out like a sewing pattern, with inst...

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Lend me your character edition · 2005 · Dalkey Archive Press · 246 pages
In the jaws of life edition · 1993 · Northwestern University Press · 252 pages
In the jaws of life edition · 1992 · Virago Press · 252 pages

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