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About Mary Flanagan
See more books from this AuthorRacism mingles with misogyny in the title story when an English editor rants against ``yobs'' in a Greek cafe, then turns his venom on his young lover: ``You'll sit in cafes, wrinkled and ridiculous and menopausal.'' Professional men come off poorly, from the abusive husband of ``When I'm Bad'' t...
| Read Full Review of The Blue Woman: And Other Sto...The sense of women caring almost instinctively for other lives runs through this fine collection, whether displayed humorously, as in ``Fluff'' (about two increasingly crazy cat lovers), or poignantly, as in ``Bye-Bye, Blackbird,'' in which a woman falls down upon rocks and dirt while trying to s...
| Read Full Review of The Blue Woman: And Other Sto...The stories in Mary Flanagan's new collection, The Blue Woman, are extremely well-crafted (with the exception of a few, including, oddly, the title story), and written in clear, careful prose;
| Read Full Review of The Blue Woman: And Other Sto...