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Misfits and Other Heroes

by Suzanne Burns

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ISBN13: 9780981589961
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Suzanne Burns's Misfits and Other Heroes is a strange and compulsively readable collection. Her cast of characters is carnival-esque, her prose is fresh, and the stories are sad, bizarre, and resonant. This book is a fun-house mirror of human experience, where everything feels distorted yet true.
Recommended by Sheila A., Powells.com

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"It's downright refreshing to read stories that say something, that show a willingness to turn over the rocks of romantic relationships and shed light on the muck below — and to do it with such fun and dazzling prose, to boot." Sheila Ashdown, Powells.com (read the entire Powells.com review)

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"Suzanne Burns is the ringleader of a magical, quixotic, flea circus of words. Magisterial, she sings. I love this collection — its sadness and wonder, its acrobatics, its nerve." Kate Bernheimer, editor of Fairy Tale Review

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"Who would have thought that Oregon's misfits could be as deluded and cruel as Flannery O'Connor's Southerners and even more bizarre?" Tom Whalen, author of Dolls: Prose Poems

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Where the wild things come out to play. Magical stories with a masterful touch of soul.
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About the Author

Suzanne Burns has previously published two collections of poetry, Blight from Archer Books and The Flesh Procession from Bleak House Books. Her writing has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and she is the recipient of two poetry fellowships. She is a freelance editor who is currently working on a new novel.
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Ampersand Books, November 29, 2010 (view all comments by Ampersand Books)
Burns’ women are food obsessed; her men are deformed; the relationships are—well—dysfunctional is a gentle word. Readers may not understand her tactics at the onset, but when they play along for a story or two, this strange, meandering path of suspended reality becomes irresistable. Burns unabashedly parades oddities before her readers, who are transported to an alien planet where the language is universal.

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9780981589961
Author:
Burns, Suzanne
Publisher:
Dzanc Books
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
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Stories (single author)
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Literature-A to Z
Publication Date:
20090731
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TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
197
Dimensions:
8.40x5.50x.60 in. .65 lbs.
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"Staff Pick" by ,

Suzanne Burns's Misfits and Other Heroes is a strange and compulsively readable collection. Her cast of characters is carnival-esque, her prose is fresh, and the stories are sad, bizarre, and resonant. This book is a fun-house mirror of human experience, where everything feels distorted yet true.

by Sheila A.
"Review A Day" by , "It's downright refreshing to read stories that say something, that show a willingness to turn over the rocks of romantic relationships and shed light on the muck below — and to do it with such fun and dazzling prose, to boot." (read the entire Powells.com review)
"Review" by , "Suzanne Burns is the ringleader of a magical, quixotic, flea circus of words. Magisterial, she sings. I love this collection — its sadness and wonder, its acrobatics, its nerve."
"Review" by , "Who would have thought that Oregon's misfits could be as deluded and cruel as Flannery O'Connor's Southerners and even more bizarre?"
"Synopsis" by , Where the wild things come out to play. Magical stories with a masterful touch of soul.
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