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    Dream Dresses

    By Hilary Scharper

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    Dream Dresses is a short story collection about women's dreams and the dresses they choose to express them. Covering the life span of women from childhood to old age, these stories explore how the fabric of women's dreams and aspirations become so entangled with attire that the dress and the dream become one and the same.

    These are not just fantasies about an "Academy Award Dress" or a designer wedding gown, but the vulnerable dreams of a young girl forced to wear a drab school uniform, the desperate postpartum struggle of a trophy wife to "get her body back," and the "little black dress" that an octogenarian wishes to wear at her funeral.

    Dream Dresses goes beyond fashion predation and the Cinderella syndrome. These original, creative stories lay bare the deep, unique interpenetration of wardrobe and wishes, of dreams, desires, and the clothing that clings to them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBev Editions
    Release dateNov 23, 2015
    ISBN9781927789544
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    Dream Dresses
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    Hilary Scharper

    Hilary Scharper, who lives in Toronto, spent a decade as a lighthouse keeper on the Bruce Peninsula with her husband. She also is the author of a story collection, Dream Dresses, and God and Caesar at the Rio Grande (University of Minnesota Press) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. She received her Ph.D. from Yale and is currently Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

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