Nice Big American Baby - Hardcover

Budnitz, Judy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375412425 ISBN 13: 9780375412424

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2005

Synopsis

The author of If I Told You Once presents a poignant, richly varied anthology of modern fables that journey from suburban backyards and swimming pools to fallout shelters in wartorn cities, in a collection that includes "Flush," "Elephant and Boy," "Nadia," "Preparedness," "Where We Come From," and seven other tales. 25,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker.

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Review:

"This is fiction that's fierce and true, hilarious and creepy, wise and graceful and occasionally very, very strange. The next time someone tells you the short story is dead, throw this book at them." -Daniel Handler ("Lemony Snicket"), author of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and "The Basic Eight""Masterly . . . sparkling. . . . Reading Budnitz's stories is like experiencing the exhilaration of flight." -"San Francisco Chronicle" "There isn't anything Judy Budnitz can't or won't do, and right when you think she couldn't possibly be more inventive and daring and smart and universal, she proves you wrong." -"Ploughshares ""The impressive "Nice Big American Baby" . . . leaves us breathless, astonished and more than a little bit awed." -"Miami Herald ""Budnitz's collection is jarring, humane, funny, and so lively it practically buzzes." -"Entertainment Weekly""If you crossed the magical realism of Gabriel Garc'a M+rquez with the hip contemporary voice of Lorrie Moore, you might come up with something like the fiction of Judy Budnitz. . . . One of America's most engaging and innovative fictional voices." -"Atlanta Journal-Constitution ""Judy Budnitz is the real thing. . . . Fabulist and down to earth, personal and political, wicked and generous, always surprising. . . . The voice is deadpan, but also has the rhythm of stand-up comedy." -"Newsday""The further Budnitz gets from reality, the more beautifully she writes about humanity. . . . The new collection is ripe, humorous and full of life-to put it aside is to wake from a strange, deliciously inventive dream." -"The Oregonian"

About the Author:

Judy Budnitz's stories have appeared in "The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Story, The Paris Review, The Oxford American, Glimmer Train, Fence, " and "McSweeney's, " and she is the recipient of an O. Henry Award. "Flying Leap "was a "New York Times" Notable Book in 1998. Budnitz is also the author of the novel "If I Told You Once, "which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in the United States and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the United Kingdom. She lives in San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0375412425
• ISBN 13: 9780375412424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 285