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Little Labours
About this book
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies.
‘Beguiling … A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios … A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.’ Boston Globe
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Childrenās books
- The crystal child
- A long, long time ago, in late August
- A reason to apologize to friends
- What drug is a baby?
- Dynasty
- Cargo cult
- Mysteries of taste
- Cravings
- Religious aspects of the baby
- Head shape
- The romantic comedy
- Wiped out
- The species
- Literature has more dogs than babies
- More Frankenstein
- And movies
- Princess Kaguya
- Rumpelstiltskin
- How the puma affects others, one
- How the puma affects others, two
- Notes on some twentieth-century writers
- Other peopleās babies
- Other peopleās babies, two
- Other peopleās babies, three
- Other peopleās babies, four
- Reversals
- Mother writers
- When the baby came home
- When the empress moved
- Screens
- iPhone footage
- Lots of writers have children
- In Flagstaff, one
- In Flagstaff, two
- New variety of depression
- A baby is an ideal vector for a revenge plot
- A modern anxiety
- Things that one was misleadingly told were a big part of having a baby
- Babies in art
- Video games
- Orange
- More babies in art
- Sometimes it can seem like many hours with a baby
- Stranger danger
- How the puma affects others, three
- Most of the great women writers of the twentieth century
- Women writers
- Baby girls and men
- A friend who is not a close friend
- I never
- A Dollās House
- People who get along well with babies
- The beginning of misunderstanding
- A new citizen
- Money and babies
- Keep Reading ā¦
- About the Publisher