Synopsis
These shocking, brilliant, and ultimately beautiful stories chronicle the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Each tale is laced with enough wit, humor, and imagination to keep the reader constantly amazed. From the young son persuaded to donate his heart to his dying mother, to the girl who befriends a man in a dog suit in post-apocolyptic suburbia, to the man and woman conducting a love affair across a park bench, these characters delight and dazzle.
About Judy Budnitz
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Judy Budnitzs stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers Magazine, Story, The Paris Review, The Oxford American, Glimmer Train, Fence, and McSweeneys, and she is the recipient of an O. Henry Award. Flying Leap was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998. Budnitz is also the author of the novel If I Told You Once, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in the United States and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the United Kingdom. She lives in San Francisco. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Published November 15, 1998
by Picador.
256 pages
Genres:
Literature & Fiction.
Fiction
