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Get in Trouble: Stories

Get in Trouble: Stories

Link, Kelly

Paperback

FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0812986490
ISBN13: 9780812986495
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Feb 9 2016
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - A bewitching story collection from the author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, hailed as the most darkly playful voice in American fiction (Michael Chabon) and our greatest living fabulist (Carmen Maria Machado)

Ridiculously brilliant . . . These stories make you laugh while staring into the void.--The Boston Globe

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: BuzzFeed, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Toronto Star, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage

Kelly Link has won an ardent following for her ability, with each new short story, to take readers deeply into an unforgettable, brilliantly constructed fictional universe. The nine exquisite examples in this collection show her in full command of her formidable powers. In The Summer People, a young girl in rural North Carolina serves as uneasy caretaker to the mysterious, never-quite-glimpsed visitors who inhabit the cottage behind her house. In I Can See Right Through You, a middle-aged movie star makes a disturbing trip to the Florida swamp where his former on- and off-screen love interest is shooting a ghost-hunting reality show. In The New Boyfriend, a suburban slumber party takes an unusual turn, and a teenage friendship is tested, when the spoiled birthday girl opens her big present: a life-size animated doll.

Hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins, bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of Oz, superheroes, the Pyramids . . . These are just some of the talismans of an imagination as capacious and as full of wonder as that of any writer today. But as fantastical as these stories can be, they are always grounded by sly humor and an innate generosity of feeling for the frailty--and the hidden strengths--of human beings. In Get in Trouble, this one-of-a-kind talent expands the boundaries of what short fiction can do.

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