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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt : Stories Paperback Aimee Bender
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- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- ISBN
- 9780385492164
- Book Title
- Girl in the Flammable Skirt : Stories
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 7.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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"A collection of wistful, witty stories." -- Esquire "Hilarious, deep and a little bit dirty." -- Harper's Bazaar 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? 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. 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. A 1998 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best works of fiction of 1998.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385492162
ISBN-13
9780385492164
eBay Product ID (ePID)
936803
Product Key Features
Book Title
Girl in the Flammable Skirt : Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Reviews
"Aimee Bender's debut is a string of jewels." --Publishers Weekly "Superbly imagined. Bender has hit the ground running." --Entertainment Weekly "Bender's stories read like modern fables--with a healthy sense of twisted humor thrown in for good measure." --The Village Voice Literary Supplement "Aimee Bender's stories come as a revelation....She's a thrilling discovery." --Jonathan Lethem, author of Girl in Landscape andAs She Climbed Across the Table "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, author of Slow Motion, "Aimee Bender's debut is a string of jewels." --Publishers Weekly "Superbly imagined. Bender has hit the ground running." --Entertainment Weekly "Bender's stories read like modern fables--with a healthy sense of twisted humor thrown in for good measure." --The Village Voice Literary Supplement "Aimee Bender's stories come as a revelation....She's a thrilling discovery." --Jonathan Lethem, author of Girl in Landscape and As She Climbed Across the Table "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, author of Slow Motion
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Trade
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21
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