The 3 Button Trick and Other Stories - Hardcover

Barker, Nicola

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880016779 ISBN 13: 9780880016773

Publisher: Ecco Pr, 1999

Synopsis

A collection of short stories from the author of Love Your Enemies and Heading Inland explores the fates of characters whose erotic fantasies, childhood traumas, and seemingly harmless deceptions wreak havoc in their lives.

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Review:

"Barker's subjects are often raw and irreverently sexy...[and] she never fails to surprise and delight with incisive writing and piercing wit, to say nothing of all the vivid characters inhabiting these rambunctious and witty stories."-- "Publisher's Weekly

From the Back Cover:

Audacious, original, clever, poignant -- these are just a few words that describe the writing of Nicola Barker, a talented, award-winning author whose work brings to mind Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, and Maragaret Atwood. Now nineteen of her finest short stories have been complied into one brilliant, delightful readable volume.

It takes young Carrie twenty-one years and a chance meeting with an eighty-three-year-old widow to realize she fell victim to her husband's "Three Button Trick." The main character in "Wesley" must work through his troubled childhood in a series of episodes involving masses of eels, an imaginary friend named Joy, and an unmentionable incident with an emu-owl. From erotic encounters behind clothing racks to a kleptomaniac with his organs on the wrong side, this daring and gifted writer never fails to surprise us, entertain us, and make us think.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0880016779
• ISBN 13: 9780880016773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216