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The Burning Glass Of The Title Of Helen Norris' Third Book Of Short Fiction Is An Archaic Expression For The Magnifying Glass, And The Metaphor Is Entirely Appropriate. For A Burning Glass Not Only Makes Small Things Large, But Focused Long And Precisely Enough, It Sets The Magnified Object On Fire. And Indeed, These Nine Superb Stories Are Illuminated By The Incandescence Of Words - And Hearts - Set Ablaze. The Characters In This Collection Range From Young To. Middle-aged To Old; The Tone Turns Effortlessly From Deeply Serious, As In The Wake Of A Cry, The Hallucinatory Meditations Of A Soldier Wounded In Combat, To The Cosmic Burlesque Of A Bee In Amber, Which Kafka Himself Would Have Admired. Inside The Silence Tells Of A Woman's Visit To Majdanek, A Polish Concentration Camp, A Visit So Harrowing, So Stunning In Its Paradoxical Revelation Of Simple Decency And Our Common Humanity, That The Woman Finds Herself Changed. Forever. This Profound Exploration Of The Death Camp's Grim Legacy Concludes With Words Whose Relevance Cannot Be Too Often Repeated: We Cannot Take Care Unless We Know. A Number Of These Stories Are Scaffolded On Themes Of Abandonment And Adoption. In Mirror Ima

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Author

Norris, Helen, 1916-

Publisher

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807117903

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.3 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14