Willful Creatures - Softcover

Bender, Aimee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385720971 ISBN 13: 9780385720977

Publisher: Anchor Books, 2006

Synopsis

"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." --The New York Times Book Review

Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures 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.

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Review:

"[Bender] is Hemingway on an acid trip; her choices are twisted, both ethereal and surprisingly weighty. . . . Terrifyingly lovely." -Los Angeles Times "New, exciting, harsh, rugged and unyielding. . . . Every sentence in [Willful Creatures] is a fresh surprise." -The Washington Post"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." -The New York Times Book Review "These are stories that you'll read with a sense of discovery and wonder. You'll re-read them just for their beauty." -The Denver Post "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." -Entertainment Weekly 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." -The New York Times Book Review "These are stories that you'll read with a sense of discovery and wonder. You'll re-read them just for their beauty." -The Denver Post "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 The Lovely Bones

Book Description:

A fantastical collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0385720971
• ISBN 13: 9780385720977
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224