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Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition.

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A new collection of all original stories by the author of An Invisible Sign of My Own and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt presents new tales of love, heartbreak, sex, adversity, and potato babies. Reprint.

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Aimee Bender lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in Granta, GQ, Harper's, Fence, Tin House, Paris Review, and several other publications. She is the author of collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and An Invisible Sign of My Own, her first novel.
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Table of Contents

Death watch — End of the line — Off — The meeting — Debbieland — Motherfucker — Fruit and words — Jinx — I will pick out your ribs (from my teeth) — Ironhead — Job's jobs — Dearth — The case of the salt and pepper shakers — The leading man — Hymn.

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ISBN:
9780307493255
Publisher:
Anchor
Subject:
Fiction : Short Stories (single author)
Author:
Bender, Aimee
Author:
Aimee Bender
Subject:
Fiction : Literary
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fantasy fiction, American
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
main_subject
Subject:
all_subjects
Publication Date:
20060808
Binding:
ELECTRONIC
Language:
English
Pages:
224
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Product details 224 pages Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - English 9780307493255 Reviews:
"Synopsis" by , A new collection of all original stories by the author of An Invisible Sign of My Own and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt presents new tales of love, heartbreak, sex, adversity, and potato babies. Reprint.
"Synopsis" by , Aimee Bender lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in Granta, GQ, Harper's, Fence, Tin House, Paris Review, and several other publications. She is the author of collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and An Invisible Sign of My Own, her first novel.
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