| International Standard Book Number |
9781644454206 epub
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781644454190 (trade paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
164445419X (trade paperback)
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| Personal Name |
FernaÌndez, Laura, 1981- author.
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| Uniform Title |
Hay un monstruo en el lago. English
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| Title Statement |
There's a monster in the lake : the world as a fantastical place / Laura Fernandez ; translated from the Spanish by Alexis Almeida.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
93 pages ; 21 cm.
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| General Note |
Translated from the Spanish.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"What does the Loch Ness Monster tell us about belief, tourism, and the stories we need to survive? In this formally innovative essay, award-winning Spanish writer Laura Fernandez travels to the Scottish Highlands to investigate the legend of Nessie and develops a perspective on humanity's perpetual and sometimes destructive need to "discover." From the 1933 sighting that launched a media sensation to the cast of monster hunters, fraudsters, and devotees who have perpetuated the story, Fernandez unravels how we transform mystery into tourist attraction. Boarding a cruise ship on Loch Ness itself, she encounters a world where imagination and commerce collide. But this is more than a travelogue. Fernandez probes deeper: What does reality consist of and who is creating it? How is observing also living? In a world increasingly hostile to the fantastical, what does our relationship with Nessie reveal about how we inhabit reality itself? Written with the punch of Douglas Adams and the ambition of Thomas Pynchon, There's a Monster in the Lake is a brilliant meditation on monsters in the age of manufactured reality. Reminiscent of David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster, Fernandez's essay is both playful and philosophical, a celebration of imagination as the source of our humanity"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
FernaÌndez, Laura, 1981- Travel Scotland Ness, Loch.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Loch Ness monster.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Highlands (Scotland) Description and travel.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Ness, Loch (Scotland) Description and travel.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Travel writing.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Almeida, Alexis, translator.
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