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and Other Stories
Pantheon
October 2006
On Sale: October 10, 2006
136 pages ISBN: 0375424539 EAN: 9780375424533 Hardcover
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Fiction
Here are three delightful, bittersweet,
especially-for-our-time adult stories of modern life as
lived by men and women of a certain age: the baby boomer.
Jenny Allen’s brilliant and witty narratives and Jules
Feiffer’s playfully expressive drawings coax to the surface
the hidden anxieties, familiar frustrations, and downright
fury that we try to convince ourselves we don't really feel.
The characters in these stories are reckoning with life’s
little surprises. But what they don't expect sometimes turns
out to be all right anyway: a little redemption bubbling up
in the kitchen where “Judy’s Wonder Chili” is made. . . or
hiding in the folds of an origami crane, waiting to be found
by the children’s book writer in “Something Happened”. . .
or revealing itself on the surface of the well-used
chalkboard of the title tale. In their humor, simplicity, and subtlety, these
stories--brought to life perfectly through Feiffer’s
drawings--speak to our deepest adult-yet-childlike selves.
There’s not a grown-up among us who won’t be completely charmed.
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