Nice big American baby: stories

✍ Scribed by Judy Budnitz

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Contemporaries
• Year: 2007;2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 163 KB
• Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1299021964

✦ Synopsis

A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose world--and imagination--knows no boundaries. "I don't know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from," said Newsweek on the publication of her fiction debut, Flying Leap, "but I'm happy to have her. Tremendous . . . funny, dark, adventurous, slanted, and enchanted." These twelve astonishingly inventive stories--which take us into the heart of America and around the globe, from suburban backyards and swimming pools to war-torn streets and fallout shelters--are riveting, seductive, and impossible to forget.

In "Flush," a mammogram prompts a dark comedy of blurred identities between a mother and her two adult daughters. In "Elephant and Boy," a surrogate mother-and-son bond, tinged with the erotic, is formed when a philanthropist attempts to "civilize" a young elephant handler. "Nadia" sounds the depths of a young woman's complex feelings toward a friend' s mail-order bride from Eastern...