Prologue: the madness of puppets -- A conversation in Rome -- Bad manners -- The scale of the puppet -- The fate of hands -- Wooden acting -- Fables for a puppet theater -- Destroying the puppet show -- Hunger -- The blackened puppet -- Shadows -- A test of innocence -- Coda: everything else.
"A book about reseeing what we know, or what we think we know, Puppet evokes the startling power of puppets as mirrors of the uncanny in life and art."--Page 4 of cover
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