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Crazy Water: Six Fictions,New
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Product Description In Crazy Water: Six Fictions, Lori Baker pushes the boundaries between truth and reality with curious, tragicomic results. The imagination is Baker's terrain, and in these stories, pleasant suburban childhoods, family drives, seaside vacations, and an academic's quest for tenure all are strangely warped, yet nonetheless still mirror a world we thought we knew. In these brief pages, boys become dogs, students hide in the molluscan places, and mothers do their best to rescind their unsatisfying children. 'I say things smugly as if I understand them, muses one of Baker's narrators. Indeed, characters and readers alike are undermined in these deft and quirky fictions. Exposing and imploding all of our expectations, Baker shows us how menacing (and funny) the apparently ordinary can be. From Publishers Weekly Crazy Water, winner of the 1995 Mamdouha S. Bobst Literary Award for Short Stories, is an eclectic mix of suburban fairy tales and stories of the dark side of love. In one story, a young son thinks he is a dog and only acts human after a dog trainer teaches him how to behave like a boy. In another story, a repressed girl learns what love is from a stranger in a tree. These stories demand a certain suspended disbelief; the reader must be willing to accept that a boy may in fact be a dog, for example. Many of the settings seem familiar and ordinary, but the author wittily twists events to tragicomic conclusions. This works because Baker is so successful in creating an apparently commonplace world. Reading the stories gives one the feeling of entering the Twilight Zone, not because the stories are fantastical, but precisely the opposite?at least until the setting and theme are hijacked by Baker's imagination, at which point something unexpected, and usually funny, happens.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the Back Cover In Crazy Water: Six Fictions, Lori Baker pushes the boundaries between truth and reality with curious, tragicomic results. In these brief pages, boys become dogs, students hide in molluscan places, and mothers do their best to rescind their unsatisfying children. About the Author Lori Baker is a 1986Trans Atlantic Review Award Winner who lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband, the poet Gale Nelson, and their cat Carlotta. She is currently hard at work on her first novel.
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