The Orchid Stories - Kenward Elmslie Gertrude Stein Label - Black Truffle

Label - Black Truffle

fear and wonder

An atmospheric work of personal reportage that artfully renders the history and lived experience of Parisian squats

drawing and writing

Format - 2Lp

The Orchid Stories - Kenward Elmslie Gertrude Stein Label - Black TruffleLike the orchids that provide their leitmotif, these interwoven stories by Kenward Elmslie are exquisite, exotic, and oneiric, as if they had been written in another world. Although each of The Orchid Stories stands alone, their characters and moods recur frequently, in a swirl of visual echoes and the bewildering clarity of a dream. Even the characters themselves, with their shifting names and genders, have an illusive reality that enhances the