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Get in Trouble: Stories
| Author: | Kelly Link |
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Random House, 2015 Canongate Books Ltd., 2015 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as "the most darkly playful voice in American fiction" and by Neil Gaiman as "a national treasure." Now Kelly Link's eagerly awaited new collection--her first for adult readers in a decade--proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer is among the finest we have.
Link has won an ardent following for her ability, with each new short story, to take readers deeply into an unforgettable, brilliantly constructed fictional universe. The nine exquisite examples in this collection show her in full command of her formidable powers. In "The Summer People," a young girl in rural North Carolina serves as uneasy caretaker to the mysterious, never-quite-glimpsed visitors who inhabit the cottage behind her house. In "I Can See Right Through You," a middle-aged movie star makes a disturbing trip to the Florida swamp where his former on- and off-screen love interest is shooting a ghost-hunting reality show. In "The New Boyfriend," a suburban slumber party takes an unusual turn, and a teenage friendship is tested, when the spoiled birthday girl opens her big present: a life-size animated doll.
Hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins, bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of Oz, superheroes, the Pyramids... These are just some of the talismans of an imagination as capacious and as full of wonder as that of any writer today. But as fantastical as these stories can be, they are always grounded by sly humor and an innate generosity of feeling for the frailty--and the hidden strengths--of human beings. In Get in Trouble, this one-of-a-kind talent expands the boundaries of what short fiction can do.
Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Table of Contents:
- The Summer People - (2011) - novelette by Kelly Link
- I Can See Right Through You - (2014) - novelette by Kelly Link
- Secret Identity - (2009) - novelette by Kelly Link
- Valley of the Girls - (2011) - shortstory by Kelly Link
- Origin Story - (2006) - novelette by Kelly Link
- The Lesson - (2015) - shortstory by Kelly Link
- The New Boyfirend - (2014) - novelette by Kelly Link
- Two Houses - (2012) - novelette by Kelly Link
- Light - (2007) - novelette by Kelly Link
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