Bibliograph

The girl in the flammable skirt, stories by Aimee Bender

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The girl in the flammable skirt, stories by Aimee Bender

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

The girl in the flammable skirt

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

751417413

Responsibility statement

stories by Aimee Bender

Summary

A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual abandon: He only wants to watch game shows. A woman falls in love with a hunchback; when his deformity turns out to be a prosthesis, she leaves him. A wife whose husband has just returned from the war struggles with the heartrending question: Can she still love a man who has no lips? Aimee Bender's stories portray a world twisted on its axis, a place of unconvention that resembles nothing so much as real life, in all its grotesque, beautiful glory. From the first line of each tale she lets us know she is telling a story, but the moral is never quite what we expect. Bender's prose is glorious: musical and colloquial, inimitable and heartrending. Here are stories of men and women whose lives are shaped--and sometimes twisted--by the power of extraordinary desires, erotic and otherwise. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt From the Trade Paperback edition

Table Of Contents

The rememberer -- Call my name -- What you left in the ditch -- The bowl -- Marzipan -- Quiet please -- Skinless -- Fugue -- Drunken Mimi -- Fell this girl -- The healer -- Loser -- Legacy -- Dreaming in Polish -- The ring -- The girl in the flammable skirt

Target audience

adult

Classification

Contributor