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Stranger Things Happen

3.8/5 ( ratings)

This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear.

These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you.

Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.

Contents:
- Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
- Water Off a Black Dog's Back
- The Specialist's Hat
- Flying Lessons
- Travels with the Snow Queen
- Vanishing Act
- Survivor's Ball, or, The Donner Party
- Shoe and Marriage
- Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water
- Louise's Ghost
- The Girl Detective

Cover painting by Shelley Jackson

Language: English

Pages: 266

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Small Beer Press

Release: July 01, 2001

ISBN: 1931520003

ISBN 13: 9781931520003

Stranger Things Happen

3.8/5 ( ratings)

This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a series of consecutive love affairs with a string of cellists. A newly married couple become participants in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. Sexy blond aliens invade New York City. A young girl learns how to make herself disappear.

These eleven extraordinary stories are quirky, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. Every story contains a secret prize. Each story was written especially for you.

Stories from Stranger Things Happen have won the Nebula, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Award. Stranger Things Happen was a Salon Book of the Year, one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001, and was nominated for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.

Contents:
- Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
- Water Off a Black Dog's Back
- The Specialist's Hat
- Flying Lessons
- Travels with the Snow Queen
- Vanishing Act
- Survivor's Ball, or, The Donner Party
- Shoe and Marriage
- Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water
- Louise's Ghost
- The Girl Detective

Cover painting by Shelley Jackson

Language: English

Pages: 266

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Small Beer Press

Release: July 01, 2001

ISBN: 1931520003

ISBN 13: 9781931520003

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