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Stranger Things Happen
by Kelly Link
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9781931520003 |
Awards
A Salon.com Best Book of 2001.
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link, takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear.
These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you.
Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.
Review:
"Link uses the nonsensical to illuminate truth, blurring the distinctions between the mundane and the fantastic to tease out the underlying meanings of modern life." Booklist
Review:
"An intrepid young woman described only as the Girl Detective, seeks her long-lost mother by paying a visit to the Underworld. A woman whose boyfriend went out to buy a pack of cigarettes and was last seen getting into the Snow Queen's sleigh embarks on a bloody-minded journey with the intention of dragging him back — or at least of giving him a piece of her mind. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose parents, between the two of them, have a wooden nose, a wooden leg, and a barnful of sinister black dogs. A not very good husband who can't quite remember his wife's name writes her woebegone letters from the deserted seaside hotel he's beginning to suspect might be a waystop on the path to the next world. Besotted newlyweds watch a televised beauty pageant whose contestants seem not entirely human (especially Miss New Jersey, who has horns and a tail). Kelly Link's exquisite stories mix the aggravations and epiphanies of everyday life with the stuff that myths, dreams, and nightmares are made of. Some of them are very scary, others are immensely sad, many are funny, and all of them are written in prose so flawless you almost forget how much elemental human chaos they contain." Laura Miller, "The Best Books of 2001," Salon.com
Synopsis:
"An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer."-Salon.com (Best of the Year)
"A delightful collection."-Cleveland Plain Dealer
"My favorite fantasy writer."-Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
The eleven stories in Kelly Link's debut collection are funny, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. They were all especially written for you. A Best of the Year pick from Salon.com, Locus, The Village Voice,andSan Francisco Chronicle.Includes Nebula, World Fantasy, and Tiptree award-winning stories.
Kelly Linklives in Northampton, Massachusetts, although she can often be found driving across the country.
About the Author
Kelly Link is the author of two collections, Magic for Beginners (chosen as a 2005 Best Book by Time Magazine, Salon.com, and Book Sense) and Stranger Things Happen. She is the editor of the anthology Trampoline. She and her husband Gavin J. Grant started Small Beer Press in 2000.
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Shannon Prickett, August 14, 2007 (view all comments by Shannon Prickett)
Kelly Link stories are puzzles for the reader to solve, pieces joined in an unanticipated whole. While none of these stories grant much in the way of closure, they are all compelling reads.
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Michelle, October 12, 2006 (view all comments by Michelle)
This book was picked up on a whim and I liked it so much I'm about to buy Kelly Link's new short story collection, Magic for Beginners. The stories have that wonderful slippery feeling that occurs when one notices strange things happening in everyday life. Her characters are engaging, even enchanting at times, and the tiny elements of the world that surrounds them remind us to pay attention to the little things around us and how unexpected they can be. It really played up to my own tendency towards curiosity and exploration, true to the cover illustration, and drew me along a wild prose garden path each step of the way.
A great little collection of stories, each very individual, each a little strange, but all illuminating one facet or another of human lives and hearts. Bravo!
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781931520003
- Subtitle:
- Stories
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Small Beer Press
- Location:
- Brooklyn, NY
- Subject:
- Short Stories (single author)
- Subject:
- Short stories
- Subject:
- Fantasy fiction
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Subject:
- Horror - General
- Copyright:
- 2001
- Edition Number:
- 1st ed.
- Series Volume:
- 75
- Publication Date:
- December 2001
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 266
- Dimensions:
- 8.64x5.56x.67 in. .78 lbs.
