The Baum plan for financial independence and other stories : And Other Stories

Stories intersecting imaginatively with the worlds and characters of Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor's'A Good Man is Hard to Find.'Includes Kessel's modern classic story sequence about life on the moon.

a Literary Collection Of Astonishing Stories From An Award-winning Science-fiction Writer And Satirist.

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this Nuanced Mostly Reprint Collection, The First In A Decade From Nebula Winner Kessel (good News From Outer Space), Plays On The Theme Of A Hapless, Down-on-his-luck Man Thrown Into Extraordinary Circumstances. The Juniper Tree, The Tiptree-winning Stories For Men, Sunlight Or Rock And Under The Lunchbox Tree, All Tied To Kessel's Lunar Colony Sequence, Explore The Limits Placed On A Man's Life In A Beautiful, Woman-dominated City On The Barren Moon. In Powerless, The Only Story Original To The Volume, A Hapless Inventor Finally Perfects A Strange New Power Generator, Destroying His Relationships Along The Way. Paying Homage To The Classics, Every Angel Is Terrifying Serves As A Sequel To Flannery O'connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find, While In Pride And Prometheus Mary Bennet Meets Victor Frankenstein. These Well-crafted Stories, Full Of Elegantly Drawn Characters, Deliver A Powerful Emotional Punch. (apr.)

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John Kessel's latest collection which includes the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award winner "Pride and Prometheus" is a long-awaited road map to the fantastic where Pride and Prejudice , Frankenstein , The Wizard of Oz , and Flannery O'Connor intersect. Kessel's four-story modern classic sequence about life on the moon, The Lunar Quartet, makes up the center of the book. "A sustained exploration of the ways gender dynamics can both empower and enslave us. Kessel's wit sparkles throughout, peaking with the most uproariously weird phone-sex conversation you'll ever read ("The Red Phone")." A- Entertainment Weekly Winner of the Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, and Tiptree awards, John Kessel is the author of The New York Times Notable Book Meeting in Infinity . He co-edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange and Rewired . Kessel and his family live in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University. A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children's collective goes house hunting The Baum plan for financial independence Every angel is Terrifying The invisible empire Powerless It's all true The red phone Downtown The last American The snake girl The juniper tree Stories for men Under the lunchbox tree Sunlight or rock Pride and Prometheus. A long-awaited collection that intersects imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor. Includes John Kessel's modern classic sequence about life on the moon