| Magic for Beginners Contributor(s): Link, Kelly (Author) |
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ISBN: 1931520151 ISBN-13: 9781931520157 Publisher: Small Beer Press OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: Cult favorite Link unfurls a second engaging, funny, and magical selection of stories, with riffs on marriage, cannons, convenience stories, superheroes, zombies, and apocalyptic poker parties. Illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Science Fiction - Collections & Anthologies |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005005394 |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 6.46" W x 9.24" (1.39 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Best of the Decade: Salon, The A.V. Club If I had to pick the most powerfully original voice in fantasy today, it would be Kelly Link. Her stories begin in a world very much like our own, but then, following some mysterious alien geometry, they twist themselves into something fantastic and, frequently, horrific. You won't come out the same person you went in.--Lev Grossman, The Week Highly original.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Dazzling.--Entertainment Weekly (grade: A, Editor's Choice) Darkly playful.--Michael Chabon Best of the Year: Time Magazine, Salon, Boldtype, PopMatters. Kelly Link's engaging and funny stories riff on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, and cannons. Includes Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winners. A Best of the Year pick from TIME, Salon.com, and Book Sense. Illustrated by Shelley Jackson. Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short fiction Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question "Why do you want to go through the world?" ("Because you can't go through it.") Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they started the occasional zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. |