Nice Big American Baby (Vintage Contemporaries) - Tapa blanda

"This is fiction that's fierce and true, hilarious and creepy, wise and graceful and occasionally very, very strange. The next time someone tells you the short story is dead, throw this book at them." -Daniel Handler ("Lemony Snicket"), author of A Series of Unfortunate Events and The Basic Eight"Masterly . . . sparkling. . . . Reading Budnitz's stories is like experiencing the exhilaration of flight." -San Francisco Chronicle "There isn't anything Judy Budnitz can't or won't do, and right when you think she couldn't possibly be more inventive and daring and smart and universal, she proves you wrong." -Ploughshares "The impressive Nice Big American Baby . . . leaves us breathless, astonished and more than a little bit awed." -Miami Herald "Budnitz's collection is jarring, humane, funny, and so lively it practically buzzes." -Entertainment Weekly"If you crossed the magical realism of Gabriel Garc'a M+rquez with the hip contemporary voice of Lorrie Moore, you might come up with something like the fiction of Judy Budnitz. . . . One of America's most engaging and innovative fictional voices." -Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Judy Budnitz is the real thing. . . . Fabulist and down to earth, personal and political, wicked and generous, always surprising. . . . The voice is deadpan, but also has the rhythm of stand-up comedy." -Newsday"The further Budnitz gets from reality, the more beautifully she writes about humanity. . . . The new collection is ripe, humorous and full of life-to put it aside is to wake from a strange, deliciously inventive dream." -The Oregonian

The author of If I Told You Once presents a poignant, richly varied anthology of modern fables that journey from suburban backyards and swimming pools to fallout shelters in wartorn cities, in a collection that includes "Flush," "Elephant and Boy," "Nadia," "Preparedness," "Where We Come From," and seven other tales. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.