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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385492164)
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x"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.
Author: Aimee Bender
ISBN-10: 0385492162
ISBN-13: 9780385492164
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 08/17/1999
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.22w x 0.55d
Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 10/15/1999 pg. 73
New York Times 10/10/1999 pg. 36
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 104
"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.
Author: Aimee Bender
ISBN-10: 0385492162
ISBN-13: 9780385492164
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 08/17/1999
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.22w x 0.55d
Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 10/15/1999 pg. 73
New York Times 10/10/1999 pg. 36
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 104
By Aimee Bender
xAimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake--a New York Times bestseller--and An Invisible Sign of My Own, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.
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