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If Judy Budnitz's stories have a hallmark, it is the inevitable nudging towards a "glorious, disastrous, unexpected turn". Set in an America of one-traffic-light towns, these stories follow the downtrodden and explore how they fall off the edge.
But you want to know what happened next, what went wrong. Did he leave her? Did she leave him? Did she lie to him, cheat on him... You want her to slip up, don't you? She doesn't seem real to you yet; she's too perfect. You want to see her make a mistake...Often there is something darkly delicious about this--for just as Budnitz knows how to navigate between the sinister and the funny, she knows when to leave you stranded, squirming half-cocked and when to release the tension with sharp one-liners. Flying Leap is Judy Budnitz's first collection of short stories, published to great acclaim in the States (it was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year). It comes to us after the publication of her first novel, If I Told You Once, which was short-listed for the Orange Prize 2000. --Jane Honey
‘I don’t know what planet Budnitz comes from, but I’m happy to have her. Flying Leap is a tremendous debut –funny, dark, weird, adventurous, slanted and enchanted.’
Newsweek
‘Amazingly original... These unsettling short stories leave you wanting more.’
Seventeen
‘Budnitz’s humorous and original story ideas and the bold strokes with which she delineates them are the indispensable allies of her lyric intelligence... . An intriguing and mature debut.’
Rachel Cusk, The Village Voice
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