"If Philip K. Dick is our homegrown Borges (as Ursula K. Le Guin once said), then Waldrop is our very American magic-realist, as imaginative and playful as early Garcia Marquez or, better yet, Italo Calvino. . . . You never know what he'll come up with next, but somehow it's always a Waldrop story."
Horse of a Different Color-Stories # SSC
β Scribed by Waldrop, Howard
- Book ID
- 108297557
- Publisher
- Small Beer Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 98 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781618730732
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β¦ Synopsis
Howard Waldrop's stories are keys to the secret world of the stories behind the stories . . . or perhaps stories between the known stories. From βThe Wolfman of Alcatrazβ to a horrifying Hansel and Gretel, from "The Bravest Girl I Ever Knew" to the Vancean richness of a "Frogskin Cap," this new collection is a wunderkammer of strangeness.
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