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FROM: "Sandra Beth" <[removed]@SELCO.LIB.MN.US>
REC'D: 11/30/99, 9:53 AM

I am looking for some suggestions of fiction in which characters are
described through the strength of their hands or feet. Examples:
Louise Bogan and Virginia Woolf both describe women by their hands in
their memoirs. James Michener in HAWAII talks about the Chinese women
who refused to bind their feet.

Feel free to e-mail me directly.

Thank you
Sandy Beth
Winona Public Library, Winona, MN

FROM: "Barbara Case" <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 11/30/99, 11:18 AM

Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" uses a lot of hand and forearm imagery to
symbolize the characters' strength.

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Sandra Beth wrote:

> I am looking for some suggestions of fiction in which characters are
> described through the strength of their hands or feet. Examples:
> Louise Bogan and Virginia Woolf both describe women by their hands in
> their memoirs. James Michener in HAWAII talks about the Chinese women
> who refused to bind their feet.
>
> Feel free to e-mail me directly.
>
> Thank you
> Sandy Beth
> Winona Public Library, Winona, MN
>
>

FROM: <[removed]@galegroup.com>
REC'D: 11/30/99, 2:47 PM

The Three-Inch Golden Lotus by Feng Jicai describes a Chinese household
which is run by women who achieve power through men's admiration for their
tiny bound feet. Junichiro Tanizaki's Diary of a Mad Old Man tells the
story of a man who becomes obsessed with his daughter-in-law's feet.

Ellice Engdahl, Contributing Editor
What Do I Read Next?

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approved by the Gale Group."

Sandra Beth <[removed]@SELCO.LIB.MN.US> on 11/30/99 10:59:11 AM

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Subject: Hands & feet in literature


I am looking for some suggestions of fiction in which characters are
described through the strength of their hands or feet. Examples:
Louise Bogan and Virginia Woolf both describe women by their hands in
their memoirs. James Michener in HAWAII talks about the Chinese women
who refused to bind their feet.

Feel free to e-mail me directly.

Thank you
Sandy Beth
Winona Public Library, Winona, MN

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 11/30/99, 2:49 PM

John Irving's *A Prayer for Owen Meany* uses a lot of symbolism involving arms/hands/fingers or armlessness, it that helps.

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public Library
Glendale, AZ

<<< Barbara Case <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us> 11/30 10:20a >>>
Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" uses a lot of hand and forearm imagery to
symbolize the characters' strength.

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Sandra Beth wrote:

> I am looking for some suggestions of fiction in which characters are
> described through the strength of their hands or feet. Examples:
> Louise Bogan and Virginia Woolf both describe women by their hands in
> their memoirs. James Michener in HAWAII talks about the Chinese women
> who refused to bind their feet.
>
> Feel free to e-mail me directly.
>
> Thank you
> Sandy Beth
> Winona Public Library, Winona, MN
>
>

FROM: "Vicki Nesting" <[removed]@bellsouth.net>
REC'D: 11/30/99, 9:34 PM

In Walter Mosley's two Socrates Fortlow books (Always Outnumbered,
Always Outgunned and Walkin' the Dog), the main character is always
described in terms of his powerful, "rock-breaking" hands.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vicki Nesting, Circulation Librarian
West Bank Regional Library
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
[removed]@bellsouth.net

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FROM: "Joanna Hazelden" <[removed]@chipublib.org>
REC'D: 12/1/99, 11:24 AM

Two ideas that immediately come to mind are "The Green Mile" by Stephen
King, in which one of the condemmned men has the power to heal by his
hands. The second is the short story "Hands" by Sherwood Anderson in
his book "Winesburg, Ohio", a moving story about a former teacher.

Joanna Hazelden

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