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Willful Creatures - by Aimee Bender (Paperback)

Willful Creatures - by  Aimee Bender (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The author of the critically acclaimed story collection "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt" returns with more sublime, beguiling, and breathtakingly original stories of love, sex, heartbreak, and potato babies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear. --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>Aimee Bender's <i>Willful Creatures </i>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Bender] is Hemingway on an acid trip; her choices are twisted, both ethereal and surprisingly weighty. . . . Terrifyingly lovely." -<i>Los Angeles Times </i>"New, exciting, harsh, rugged and unyielding. . . . Every sentence in [<i>Willful Creatures</i>] is a fresh surprise." -<i>The Washington Post</i>"Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." <i>-The New York Times Book Review </i>"These are stories that you'll read with a sense of discovery and wonder. You'll re-read them just for their beauty." -<i>The Denver Post</i><b> </b>"To curl up with an Aimee Bender story is to thank heaven you ever learned to read in the first place. . . . What a treat to spend 15 stories in Bender's vast and wonderfully unhinged imagination." -<i>Entertainment Weekly </i>Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." <i>-The New York Times Book Review </i>"These are stories that you'll read with a sense of discovery and wonder. You'll re-read them just for their beauty." -<i>The Denver Post</i><b> </b>"I am a long-standing, passionate fan of Aimee Bender's stories. Her images explode, her words ignite. Watching her imagination catch fire remains a sustaining joy in my readerly life."-Alice Sebold, author of <i>The Lovely Bones</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Aimee Bender is the author of the novels <i>The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cak</i>e--a <i>New York Times</i> bestseller--and <i>An Invisible Sign of My Own</i>, and of the collections <i>The Girl in the Flammable Skirt</i> and <i>Willful Creatures</i>. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.</p>

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