| Kelly Link's highly anticipated second collection of stories.
Link's stories are engaging and funny - call them kitchen-sink magical realism. They riff on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, superheroes, marriage, and cannons. Link is an original voice - no one else writes stories quite like these.
MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS includes several new stories as well as work previously published in MCSWEENEY'S MAMMOTH TREASURY OF THRILLING TALES, CONJUNCTIONS, and THE DARK.
'Stone Animals' is in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES.
Includes:
The Faery Handbag
The Hortlak
The Cannon
Stone Animals
Catskin
Some Zombie Contingency Plans
The Great Divorce
Magic for Beginners
Lull
'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 you to the ground.' -Alice Sebold
'The exact best and strangest and funniest short story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact moment you are reading these words and making them slighly inexact. Now pay for the book.' -Jonathan Lethem
'A joy. I've not been so moved, and affected - and dammit, yes, inspired - by a book for a long time.' -China Mieville
Staff Review:
Now out in paperback, this collection of short stories is totally spooky, clever and haunting. Even if you don't consider yourself a fan of fantasy or sci-fi, these stories will still charm you. Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it's not so much the vampire mythology that hooks you as it is the characters, the writing and how real it feels and yet, yeah, there's magic in it.
-Rachel Whang, Atomic Books Blog |
