The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales

The tatters of a half dozen tales sewn together,into a novel by two seamstresses, this novel harks,solidly to the fairly tales of Anderson and Grimm.,It also casts sidelong glances at metafictional,sugardaddies like Queneau, Nabokov, Cortazar, Gass,and Milorad Pavic, whose Balkan ambience Gordon,shares. A Rabelaisian romp through the language of,sensuality.