A Lot Like Christmas: Stories

✍ Scribed by Willis, Connie

• Book ID: 109501892
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780399182341

✦ Synopsis

This new, expanded edition of Miracle and Other Christmas Stories features __ twelve __ brilliantly reimagined holiday tales, five of which are collected here for the first time.
Christmas comes but once a year--which is too bad, because the stories in this dazzling collection are fun to read anytime. They put a speculative spin on the holiday, giving fans of acclaimed author Connie Willis a welcome gift and a dozen reasons to be of good cheer.

Brimming with Willis's trademark insights and imagination, these heartwarming tales are full of humor, absurdity, human foibles, tragedy, joy, and hope. They both embrace and send up many of the best Christmas traditions, including the Christmas newsletter, Secret Santas, office parties, holiday pageants, and Christmas dinners (both elaborate and spare). There are Rockettes, the best and worst Christmas movies, modern-day Magi, Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come--and the triumph...