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Jesse Ball – The History of the Dolls and What They Did

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How it will go is this, said Vivian; we have to find out what the dolls are planning, and we seem to be getting nowhere. Let’s play a game where we try to catch the dolls in a lie. Whoever catches more lies will win. Abigail agreed to the stakes. The questions of animacy and reality that hover over childhood are given new thrust in the absurdist writer Jesse Ball’s playdate horror, The History of the Dolls and What They Did . Set within a home nursery, Ball’s short story follows two young girls into a world of clipped agency and brute amusement that mimes the cruelties of our own. Accompanied

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