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Cover credits: Cover design: AND/Cover photo: Photodisc |
"Laura Kalpakian's new collection of short stories feels both
old-fashioned and surprisingly fresh. That her characters sometimes
manage to unleash their suppressed passions is the thrill at the core
of her anachronistic and often quirky work." —The New York Times Book Review |
Price: $14.00 USD
1-55597-295-0, 264 pages, Paper
Magic brewed from the merely commonplace distinguishes the stories in The Delinquent Virgin.
A plaster Virgin—conventionally set in a church Nativity scene—goes
missing night after night with strange community consequences. The
mysterious governess Miss Savage wreaks her weird and terrible revenge
decades after she has been dismissed. Surly Emmett Wells narrates a
story of sex and violence—with no sex and no violence.
Uniting many of these wayward pieces is the fictional desert town of
St. Elmo, California, a place perhaps best described as “east of L.A.
and west of the rest of the world.” Here, using the alchemy of memory
and imagination, Kalpakian creates fiction undaunted by the ordinary
constrictions of time and place.
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