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In this dazzling collection, prize-winning short story writer Kelly Link takes the ordinary and makes it strange – and the strange and makes it ordinary. Engaging, funny, eerie and magical, these nine stories prove Link to be an original and important talent.



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Praise for Kelly Link:

‘A new collection by Kelly Link – and once more, for a little while, the world is worth saving.’ Michael Chabon

‘These stories will come alive, put on zoot suits and wrestle you to the ground.’ Alice Sebold

‘Dazzling, funny, scary and sexy, but only when they’re not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don’t happen.’ Karen Joy Fowler

‘The exact best and strangiest and funniest short story writer on earth.’ Jonathan Lethem

‘The most impressive writer of her generation.’ Peter Straub

‘Her stories have the vibrancy, the buzzing resonance and the oddly insistent quality of dreams.’ New York Times

'Weird, funny, sad, scary, moving, hip, ingeniously executed and brilliantly written stuff.' Independent on Sunday

Magic for Beginners

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    A Paperback by Kelly Link

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      Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
      Published 2 May 2007
      ISBN-13 9780007242009
      978-0007242009
      ISBN-10 000724200X
      Also in:
      Magic, spells and alchemy Mythical creatures: Fairies, elves and similar elf-like, fairy-like or magic-like beings or folk

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In this dazzling collection, prize-winning short story writer Kelly Link takes the ordinary and makes it strange – and the strange and makes it ordinary. Engaging, funny, eerie and magical, these nine stories prove Link to be an original and important talent.



      Trade Review

      Praise for Kelly Link:

      ‘A new collection by Kelly Link – and once more, for a little while, the world is worth saving.’ Michael Chabon

      ‘These stories will come alive, put on zoot suits and wrestle you to the ground.’ Alice Sebold

      ‘Dazzling, funny, scary and sexy, but only when they’re not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don’t happen.’ Karen Joy Fowler

      ‘The exact best and strangiest and funniest short story writer on earth.’ Jonathan Lethem

      ‘The most impressive writer of her generation.’ Peter Straub

      ‘Her stories have the vibrancy, the buzzing resonance and the oddly insistent quality of dreams.’ New York Times

      'Weird, funny, sad, scary, moving, hip, ingeniously executed and brilliantly written stuff.' Independent on Sunday

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