Book : Willful Creatures - Bender, Aimee

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Review [Bender] is Hemingway on an acid trip; her choices are twisted, both ethereal and surprisingly weighty. . . . Terrifyingly lovely. -Los Angeles Times “New, exciting, harsh, rugged and unyielding. . . . Every sentence in [Willful Creatures] is a fresh surprise.” -The Washington PostContemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that arent always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear. -The New York Times Book Review “These are stories that youll read with a sense of discovery and wonder. Youll re-read them just for their beauty.” -The Denver PostTo curl up with an Aimee Bender story is to thank heaven you ever learned to read in the first place. . . . What a treat to spend 15 stories in Benders vast and wonderfully unhinged imagination.” -Entertainment Weekly Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that arent always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear. -The New York Times Book Review “These are stories that youll read with a sense of discovery and wonder. Youll re-read them just for their beauty.” -The Denver Post“I am a long-standing, passionate fan of Aimee Bender’s stories. Her images explode, her words ignite. Watching her imagination catch fire remains a sustaining joy in my readerly life.”-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that arent always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear. --The New York Times Book ReviewAimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition. From the Back Cover The author of the dazzling novel An Invisible Sign of My Own and the critically acclaimed story collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt returns with more sublime, beguiling, and breathtakingly original stories of love, sex, heartbreak, and potato babies. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotions, Aimee Bender has gained a passionate following among readers and critics. The San Francisco Chronicle greeted her first story collection with rapturous praise, declaring, Once in a while a writer comes along who makes you grateful for the very existence of language. Her debut novel was called as light as a zephyr and unique as a snowflake (Washington Post), a seductively smart read (Glamour), and surreal, edgy, and endearing all at once (USA Today).Bender is a brilliant stylist, using language with the nimble grace of a magician. She conjures surreal worlds in which authentic emotion blooms. A womans children may be potatoes, but the love she feels for them is heartbreakingly real. A boy with keys as fingers is seen not as a freak but as a hero. Bender infuses even inanimate objects with human warmth. Rendering grief, loneliness, hope, love, and happiness with exquisite subtlety and cleverness, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition. About the Author Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake-a New York Times bestseller-and An Invisible Sign of My Own, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Death WatchTen men go to ten doctors. All the doctors tell all the men that they only have two weeks left to live. Five men cry. Three men rage.