Get in Trouble
by Kelly Link
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 192218263X
- ISBN 13
- 9781922182630
- Seller
-
Kensington, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Simultaenously published by Text Publishing (Melbourne) and Random House (New York) 2015.
A fabulous collection of short stories by Kelly Link.
First Australian edition in very good condition.
Synopsis
Kelly Link ’s first short-story collection, Stranger Things Happen, was a Salon and Village Voice book of the year. Her second, Magic for Beginners, was a Time book of the year. She is also the author of Pretty Monsters, a collection for young adults. She edited the anthology Trampoline, co-edits the zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and runs Small Beer Press with her partner, Gavin J. Grant. With Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant, she edits The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror . Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. From the Hardcover edition.
Reviews
Get in Trouble is a collection of nine short stories by American author, Kelly Link. Each of the stories has been previously published in other publications from as early as 2006. The stories are varied in both format and subject matter, although each one seems to feature some element of alternate reality and have a highly original plot with a twist or two to keep it interesting. There are Summer Visitors of quite a different kind, internet gaming worlds, an internet date that goes wrong in an unpredictable manner, an unusual theme park, a pair of nervous expectant gay fathers, bizarre teen toys, weird pocket universes and an attempted suicide with a potato peeler.
In these very different stories, Link manages to somehow logically combine: butter sculptures, dentists and superheroes; a surrogate mother, a gay couple, a bunch of left-over wedding dresses and a premmy baby; space ships, haunted houses and ghost stories; a jealous teenager, an antique locket and a ghost toy; pyramids, an asp and a pair of spoiled rich siblings; double shadows, twins, mermaids, iguanas and a hurricane; a Land of Oz theme park, superpowers and a childhood friend; a demon lover, an actress and a ghost.
There is plenty of dark humour in these tales; they are imaginative, sexy, often fantastic and great fun to read. Fans of Kelly Link’s work will not be disappointed with this latest collection.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Erinbank. Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 788119Z
- Title
- Get in Trouble
- Author
- Kelly Link
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Australian Edition
- ISBN 10
- 192218263X
- ISBN 13
- 9781922182630
- Publisher
- Text Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 333+
- Size
- 23.5 x 15 x 3 cm
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- Rare Titles, First Editions, Signed Copies; Featured Fiction;