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Self Portraits: Fictions Hardcover – September 13, 2010

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“An amazing, glittering, glowing, Proustian, Conradian, Borgesian, diamond-faceted, language-studded, myth-drowned Dream!”―Cynthia Ozick

These mysterious, interrelated stories create a portrait of the author’s life, both real and imagined, as he appears in each tale variously as hero, bystander, artist, and ghost, yielding an enchanting autobiography of the imagination.

Fantasy and reality collide as the book’s principal characters―two lovers―meet, part, and reunite, time and again, at different stages in life and in landscapes both familiar and exotic. Death appears as a genial waiter in a café across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; talking circus elephants console a ringmaster for his unrequited love; a young boy barters with pirates for his grandmother’s soul; and as a refrigerator begins spilling mini-glaciers into a couple’s East Village apartment, a voyage to Antarctica commences on an icy schooner waiting for them in Tompkins Square Park.

Love, and its mystery, is at the core of these self portraits, but love also for art, for adventure, and for the passion of being alive.

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250 pages
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English
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W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date

September 13, 2010
Dimensions

5.9 x 0.9 x 8.6 inches
ISBN-10

0393079058
ISBN-13

978-0393079050
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Inspired by the stories the author read to his possibly illiterate Sicilian grandmother as a child, these nested narratives are told by couples traveling through hallucinatory, romantic landscapes. As the traveler in "Self Portrait with Sicily" rides a train through the Bronx, boundaries between worlds, geography, and generations blur, transporting him through Sicily and the rural landscape of his Nonna. On a honeymoon in Spain, the narrator of "Self Portrait with Bullfight" decides that "forbearance" is the key to a lasting marriage and proceeds to try the patience of his new bride with a long-winded tale of the "frisson of rivalry" between two youths vying for the attentions of a Gypsy woman. In "Self Portrait with Cheese," an allegory about a family of bears that flees the circus only to languish, bored, in their freedom, offers a convoluted fable about the needs of artists. Tuten's (The Green Hour) polished stories of beauty, longing, and loss are relatable, yet strange enough that they constantly pique.
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About the Author

Frederic Tuten is the author of Tintin in the New World, The Green Hour, and Self Portraits, among other fiction. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Writing. He lives in New York City.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (September 13, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393079058
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393079050
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 0.9 x 8.6 inches

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Anthony S. Keys

excellent Tuten

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2010

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I enjoyed this . I think it's one of Frederic Tuten's best. Well worth reading!

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S. S. Eckhoff

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Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2015

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These stories are sweet, lyrical, and bizarre. I would love to paint them. But I read them instead.

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Steven Hardesty

This book deserves vast prizes

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2013

I had not opened this book in a long while and when I did, to re-read it, I was staggered by the physical structure of the narrative and the dreamy quality of the stories. But the best struck me like a hot stabbing blade, and that is the first story, "Voyagers." It alone is worth the price of the book. It tells of a writer's mind not always on the present planet, of those who dream and act on their dreams. The story opens a strange door on the book's strange ordinary world. Frederic Tuten deserves vast prizes for that story.

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S. R. G.

Inimitable Tuten

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2017

Inimitable Tuten! This book is extraordinary, one of my favorites. I've reread it once a year since it came out. A contemporary classic, Tuten is matchless.

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Nice writing, but not a style I enjoy

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2010

"Self-Portraits: Fictions" is a book of 12 short literary stories by Frederic Tuten. Each story shifted around in time and place and between reality and fantasy with no warning, so it was hard to tell what was going on (especially for a linear thinker like me). The characters tended to say philosophical-sounding things, so I had the feeling that there was supposed to be some deeper meaning to it all. However, I couldn't make sense of it so I decided to simply read it as a series of quirky tales. While I liked the author's writing, I'm not a good match for his style.

There was a very minor amount of bad language. Sex was implied. Overall, if the short story descriptions sound appealing to you, then you'll probably enjoy the book.

I received this book as an unrequested review copy.

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