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A debut collection of short stories chronicles the lives and fantasies of young married couples in the suburbs, from the businessman who risks everything to save an eight-pound lobster from consumption to a woman who cuts off her leg at a posh private club. Reprint.
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“A wild imagination fused with airtight logic yields truly inventive stories that begin where fantasy and normalcy cross. . . . . Brisk, funny, stylish, original.” —Elle
“Marvelously metaphorical, describing macabre situations of both alienation and redemption.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Julia Slavin is a major discovery. Her writing gets into your bloodstream like a fever.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Haunting and inventive, the stories make you think twice about the seemingly mechanical existences led by the Lilly Pulitzer set, and for that matter, the tumult we all feel trying to balance passion and daily life.” —Harper’s Bazaar
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“Marvelously metaphorical, describing macabre situations of both alienation and redemption.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Julia Slavin is a major discovery. Her writing gets into your bloodstream like a fever.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Haunting and inventive, the stories make you think twice about the seemingly mechanical existences led by the Lilly Pulitzer set, and for that matter, the tumult we all feel trying to balance passion and daily life.” —Harper’s Bazaar
Julia Slavin's stories have won a Pushcart Prize and GQ's coveted Frederick Exley Fiction Competition. She worked for a decade as an ABC-TV producer in New York before moving to Washington, D.C., where she lives with her husband. She is currently at work on a novel.
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- PublisherSt Martin's Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0312264135
- ISBN 13 9780312264130
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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