Crazy Water by Lori Baker
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 all of our expectations, Baker shows us how menacing (and funny) the apparently ordinary can be.Lori Baker is a 1986 Trans Atlantic Review Award 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780814712832 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814712835 |
| Title | Crazy Water |
| Author | Lori Baker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | New York University Press |
| Year published | 1996-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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