Full name: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories

Author: Aimee Bender Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fantasy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385492164 0385492162

Bold, sexy, and daring, these stories portray a world twisted on its axis, an unconventional place that resembles nothing so much as real life, in all its grotesque, beautiful glory. Bender's prose is glorious, musical, and colloquial, an anthology of the bizarre. In 'The Rememberer', a man undergoes reverse evolution -- from man to ape to salamander -- at which point a friend releases him into the sea, while in another story a woman gives birth to her mother. 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? 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 flamable skirt. Similar books: The Color Master by Aimee Bender All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva Cat O'Nine Tales by Jeffrey Archer Complete Short Stories by Graham Greene Perfect Recall by Ann Beattie The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates There's Something I Want You to Do by Charles Baxter The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr When the Nines Roll Over by David Benioff In the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio Love and Hydrogen by Jim Shepard Crash Diet by Jill McCorkle Chivalry by Neil Gaiman A Small Pinch of Weather and Other Stories by Joan Aiken A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon by Ken Scholes The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt