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More copies of this ISBN:The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Storiesby Aimee Bender
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When friends tell me to pick a book for them to read that I really like, this is the one I give most often. Brilliant, wacko, kooky, sharp short stories from one of my favorite writers. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual abandon: He only wants to watch game shows. A woman falls in love with a hunchback; when his deformity turns out to be a prosthesis, she leaves him. A wife whose husband has just returned from the war struggles with the heartrending question: Can she still love a man who has no lips? <BR>Aimee Bender's stories portray a world twisted on its axis, a place of unconvention that resembles nothing so much as real life, in all its grotesque, beautiful glory. From the first line of each tale she lets us know she is telling a story, but the moral is never quite what we expect. Bender's prose is glorious: musical and colloquial, inimitable and heartrending. <BR>Here are stories of men and women whose lives are shaped--and sometimes twisted--by the power of extraordinary desires, erotic and otherwise. "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt is the debut of a major American writer. Review:"Superbly imagined. Bender has hit the ground running." Entertainment Weekly Review:"Bender's stories read like modern fables — with a healthy sense of twisted humor thrown in for good measure." The Village Voice Literary Supplement Review:"Aimee Bender's stories come as a revelation....She's a thrilling discovery." Jonathan Lethem Review:"Keep your eye on this writer and her highwire act. I have a feeling she'll be keeping readers breathless for a long time to come." Dani Shapiro About the AuthorAimee Bender lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in Granta, GQ, Story, The Antioch Review, and several other publications. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine. Table of ContentsThe Rememberer Call My Name What You Left in the Ditch The Bowl Marzipan Quiet Please Skinless Fugue Drunken Mimi Fell This Girl The Healer Loser Legacy Dreaming in Polish The Ring The Girl in the Flammable Skirt What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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