by Aimee Bender
Title: Willful Creatures Author: Aimee Bender Publisher: Anchor Publication Date: Aug 26th 2009 Page Numbers: 115 pages Blurb Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s childre...
many, apparently coffee induced claps A solid contribution to an otherwise brilliant and unparallelled collection of writing. I can't in any simple words express how much I enjoy this author. These short stories may not hold up against the glory of her previous work, but they come pretty darn clos...
Full of sorrow and loneliness and longing and honesty . there is something I can't put my finger on that turned me off a little. The stories were wonderful but the style experimental, overly conscious and sometimes forced. I did enjoy them as a whole, and the last few pages of each one was truly mes...
Aimee Bender is mostly likely the best writer ever born. Sometimes she sucks and sometimes she is amazing and sometimes she is inbetween, this is one of the latter, but even her inbetweens are better than other people's bests.
Hearing that this book made the 2005 James Tiptree, Jr. Award short list, I was curious. Bender's writing fascinates and horrifies me; I have a love/hate thing for her novel An Invisible Sign of My Own. I've heard that short stories are her forte, so I was uber-curious about this collection. Needles...
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