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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories
by Aimee Bender
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ISBN13: 9780385492164 |
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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. Dave, Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher 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 Author
Aimee 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 Contents
The 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
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
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Average customer rating based on 2 comments:
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Mak Abernathe, April 24, 2008 (view all comments by Mak Abernathe)
I loved this book. It was fantastic.
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Janet Hamilton, November 13, 2006 (view all comments by Janet Hamilton)
If you are a reader who does not require dull and boring old fashioned story telling, get yourself turned on to Aimee Bender! Her whacky and wonderful writing keeps the surprises coming at an amazing pace. Her imagination is so unique and awe inspiring that it is difficult to describe. If she were a circus act she would be the lioness jumping through the hoop of fire, fearless and conscious of the passionate nature of the fire. In the title story, "The Girl with the Flammable Skirt," the image of the girl whose skirt is on fire is brought vividly to life when the author wonders if the dancing girl who whirled too close to the burning candle believed for even a moment, after being engulfed in flames, "that her passion had arrived."
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780385492164
- Subtitle:
- Stories
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Anchor Books
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Social life and customs
- Subject:
- United states
- Subject:
- Short Stories (single author)
- Edition Description:
- 1st Anchor Books ed.
- Series Volume:
- PNW-GTR-461
- Publication Date:
- August 1999
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 192
- Dimensions:
- 7.98x5.22x.55 in. .36 lbs.
