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Magic for Beginners
Kelly Link
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Description for Magic for Beginners
Paperback. In this dazzling collection, prize-winning short story writer Kelly Link takes the ordinary and makes it strange - and the strange and makes it ordinary. Engaging, funny, eerie and magical, these nine stories prove Link to be an original and important talent. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
In this dazzling collection, prize-winning short story writer Kelly Link takes the ordinary and makes it strange – and the strange and makes it ordinary. Engaging, funny, eerie and magical, these nine stories prove Link to be an original and important talent.
Of all the books you read this year, this will be the one that you remember. Taking themes from horror and fantasy, these stories transform them into the stuff of delicate lyrical fantasy, with a distinctive and effervescent blend of humour and pathos.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007242009
SKU
V9780007242009
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-4
About Kelly Link
Kelly Link’s first collection of short stories, ‘Stranger Things Happen’ was a Salon Book of the Year. She is also the editor of the anthology ‘Trampoline’ and co-editor of ‘The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror’, as well as the magazine ‘Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet’. She lives in Massachusetts, USA, where she runs a publishing company, the Small Beer Press.
Reviews for Magic for Beginners
Praise for Kelly Link: ‘A new collection by Kelly Link – and once more, for a little while, the world is worth saving.’ Michael Chabon ‘These stories will come alive, put on zoot suits and wrestle ... Read more