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Magic for Beginners

by Kelly Link

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ISBN13: 9781931520157
ISBN10: 1931520151
Condition: Standard
Dustjacket: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

Magic for Beginners is the highly anticipated second collection by Kelly Link, the author of the cult favorite collection Stranger Things Happen. As the title suggests, this is an engaging, funny, and magical selection of stories about haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, superheroes, marriages, and cannons, and includes several stories original to the collection. Stories from Magic for Beginners have previously been published in McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, Conjunctions, and The Dark.

Review:

"Move over, Russell Edson. Link is the purest, most distinctive surrealist in America, and she doesn't stop at prose-poem length." Booklist

Review:

"Kelly Link has an uncanny knack for casting spells over her readers, for luring them into the dark places — the attic, the underworld, a realm beneath a hill." The Boston Phoenix

Synopsis:

Cult favorite Kelly Link unfurls a second engaging, funny, and magical selection of stories, with riffs on marriage, cannons, convenience stories, superheroes, zombies, and apocalyptic poker parties. Illustrations.

Synopsis:

Magic for Beginners is Kelly Link’s eagerly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow-up to her beloved debut, Stranger Things Happen. “Cumulatively weirder and wiser” (The Believer), this new story collection riffs on zombies, marriage, witches, superheroes, haunted convenience stores, and weekly apocalyptic poker parties, among other things. 
 
Link’s work is truly unique. Time Out New York called her stories “cross-genre gems,” and her admirers in the literary community—from Peter Straub and Karen Joy Fowler to Alice Sebold and Michael Chabon—reflect the amazing range that makes her style so special. Call it kitchen sink magical realism: Fantastic and bizarre but funny and down to earth, there is something for everyone in Magic for Beginners.

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About the Author

Kelly Link is the editor of Trampoline, and co-editor of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror. Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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crowyhead, August 22, 2006 (view all comments by crowyhead)
I lovelovelove Kelly Link! I'd already read a few of the stories in this collection in other anthologies, but I was happy to read them again. Her brain must be such an interesting place... I think my favorites were the title story and "The Hortlak," but there were really no duds in this collection.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781931520157
Author:
Jackson, Shelley
Publisher:
Small Beer Press
Illustrator:
Jackson, Shelley
Subject:
General
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
General Fiction
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st
Publication Date:
July 1, 2005
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
9.00 x 6.00 in

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