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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt : Stories
by Bender, Aimee
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385492162
- ISBN 13
- 9780385492164
- Seller
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Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Synopsis
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. *From the publisher ([via][1])* [1]: http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-0385492162-5
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4833279-6
- Title
- The Girl in the Flammable Skirt : Stories
- Author
- Bender, Aimee
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385492162
- ISBN 13
- 9780385492164
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- August 17, 1999
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