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Crazy Water Six Fictions

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ISBN-10: 0814712843

ISBN-13: 9780814712849

Edition: 1996

Authors: Lori Baker

List price: $28.00
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In Crazy Water: Six Fictions, Lori Baker pushes the boundaries between truth and reality with curious, tragi-comic results. The imagination is Baker's terrain, and in these stories, pleasant suburban childhoods, family drives, seaside vacations, and an academic's quest for tenure all are strangely warped, yet nonetheless still mirror a world we thought we knew. In these brief pages, boys become dogs, students hide in the molluscan places, and mothers do their best to rescind their unsatisfying children. I say things smugly as if I understand them, muses one of Baker's narrators. Indeed, characters and readers alike are undermined in these deft and quirky fictions. Exposing and imploding…    
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English

Lori Bakeris a 1986Trans Atlantic ReviewAward Winner who lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband, the poet Gale Nelson, and their cat Carlotta. She is currently hard at work on her first novel.

Acknowledgments
Grace
The Drive
Crazy Water
Tenure Track
Romulus
Mother-in-Law