โ Scribed by Kelly Link
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EDITORIAL REVIEW:
*Magic for Beginners* is Kelly Linkโs eagerly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow-up to her beloved debut, *Stranger Things Happen*. ยCumulatively weirder and wiserโ (*The Believer*), this new story collection riffs on zombies, marriage, witches, superheroes, haunted convenience stores, and weekly apocalyptic poker parties, among other things.ย
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Linkโs work is truly unique. *Time Out New York* called her stories ยcross-genre gems,โ and her admirers in the literary communityยfrom Peter Straub and Karen Joy Fowler to Alice Sebold and Michael Chabonยreflect the amazing range that makes her style so special. Call it kitchen sink magical realism: Fantastic and bizarre but funny and down to earth, there is something for everyone in *Magic for Beginners*.
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Link's engaging and funny second collection -- call it kitchen-sink magical realism -- riffs on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, superheroes, marriage, and cannons -- and includes several new stories.
Fantasy/Mainstream. 93823 words long. First published in 2005. Time Magazine, Salon, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. Locus Award Winner. Young Lions Award, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy Finalist.
The nine stories in Link's second collection are the spitting image of those in her acclaimed debut, Stranger Things Happen: effervescent blends of quirky humor and pathos that transform stock themes of genre fiction into the stuff of delicate lyrical fantasy. In "Stone Animals," a house's haunting
Fantasy/Mainstream. 93823 words long. First published in 2005. Time Magazine, Salon, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. Locus Award Winner. Young Lions Award, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy Finalist.
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Magic for Beginners* is Kelly Linkโs eagerly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow-up to her beloved debut, *Stranger Things Happen*. ยCumulatively weirder and wiserโ (*The Believer*), this new story collection riffs on zombies, marriage, witches, superheroes, haunted conven