Packet 9: Tossup 17

Lydia Davis praised the “half-unworldly, off-kilter heroines” of an author with this surname in a line-by-line reading of her story “Emmy Moore’s Journal.” In a novel by an author with this surname, the prostitute Pacifica accompanies Mrs. Copperfield home from Panama. A novel by an author with this surname includes a fable about three dancing sisters who die drinking teacups full of sand. Married authors with this surname respectively wrote Two Serious Ladies and a story in which nomads kidnap a professor of linguistics and force him to act (10[1])as their (10[1])buffoon. (-5[2])The wife of a dying tourist (10[1])is taken as a concubine by a (10[1])camel (10[1])driver in a novel by an author (-5[1])with this surname, who created Kit and Port Moresby (-5[1])after moving permanently to Tangiers. For 10 (10[1])points, give this (10[1])surname (-5[2])of the author of (-5[1])“A Distant Episode” and The Sheltering Sky. (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[15])

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